Any one here who lost weight doing only diet..post pics or replies

In the beginning I did not exercise. I was too old, fat and out of shape. I weighed 233 pounds and just dropped my calories to 1200. Since I was 59 years old and sedentary that was the lowest that MFP allowed even though I wanted to lose 2 pounds a week. After about a month in I started walking. I bought a Garmin Vivofit 2 and logged my steps. My first goal was 4000 steps a day. I gradually increased that to 8000 (this works out to 30 to 45 minutes a day depending on your speed and stride). I lost on average 1.4 pounds per week over about 10 months. After that my losses slowed as my body got smaller due to a lower calorie requirement. I was motivated to walk for two reasons, first because it gave me extra calories to eat and second because it lowered my stress level. I don't have pics here right now but I have lost 72 pounds and still have about 25 to go. It is incredibly slow losing now but I am in a much better place now so I can be patient.

I had three rules: Write down everything, weigh in only once a week, only think about one day at a time. My problem in the past had always been perfectionism (and then falling off the wagon when I inevitably wasn't perfect), so while I usually came in between 1300-1450 calories a day, I tried not to obsess over it and to forgive myself on days where I lost the plot. Tracking forced me to plan ahead and get a grip on my portion control, which was my real demon, and made me want to start meal planning to get more bang for my buck. I lost 30lbs over 8 months, all without much exercise (maybe 30 min of walking or biking once a week or so, nothing regular). I started running regularly a couple months ago because I felt like I wanted to - something that was not true before! Currently I am -39lbs.

I've done it before. It works! Most people don't actually burn that many calories working out, and do it for other reasons besides just hitting their deficit.

For me, I get bored in the evenings and want to snack or have a few beers. Hitting the gym after work helps keep me busy and feel good, and then when I get home there are less hours in the day to spend snacking

I'd say I'm 90% diet, 10% exercise. I do walk the dog every day for a total of about 30 minutes and occasionally take an extra walk during my lunch break if the weather is nice. I started at 252 (256 preMFP actually) and am down to 190.2.

Lost my first 20 pounds doing just a very strict diet than slowly started exercising. Lost 50 lbs in 2 months

Lost 55lbs (190 to 135) over about a year using diet alone, but put a lot of that back on over the following year. This time I'm using exercise too, partly because the Notional Weight Loss Registry stats suggest that this helps losers to maintain, and partly because it makes me feel generally better and healthier.

This is 233 to 199 with eating what I want and walking. I've since lost 10 more and added body weight exercise 3 times a week.

DoNotSpamMe73 wrote: »

It is mostly diet as far as weight loss or gain but exercise is good for health.

Yes, this sums it up.