163 lbs lost with no exercise

guidingspiritrl
guidingspiritrl Posts: 5 Member
edited November 2024 in Introduce Yourself
I have lost 163 lbs over the last three years with absolutely no exercise. I am down to 127 lbs.

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  • SandyH2015
    SandyH2015 Posts: 95 Member
    That's amazing. Way to go!!!!
  • guidingspiritrl
    guidingspiritrl Posts: 5 Member
    Weight loss is completely based off what you eat. Exercise is great for the heart, diabetes and mental health, but terrible for weight loss. It makes you hungry and you end up eating more calories than you have burned.
  • guidingspiritrl
    guidingspiritrl Posts: 5 Member
    I used to exercise 2 hours a day. Never lost one pound. Changed my eating and lost 163.
  • 2baninja
    2baninja Posts: 531 Member
    I've lost 28 pounds and I feel better more from when I'm exercising regularly then from the pounds gone..
  • guidingspiritrl
    guidingspiritrl Posts: 5 Member
    I did say exercise is good for mental health. May be why you feel better when exercising.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,484 Spam Moderator
    guidingspiritrl wrote: »
    I used to exercise 2 hours a day. Never lost one pound. Changed my eating and lost 163.
    Lots of people do that. I had clients who NEVER changed until I showed them that they were consuming all the calories they were burning. CALORIE DEFICIT is what causes weight loss so as long as you consume LESS than you burn, you'll lose weight.

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  • AustinRuadhain
    AustinRuadhain Posts: 2,702 Member
    edited August 2018
    Hurray for what you have accomplished! That's fabulous!
    FYI, some of us have to do both the exercise and the careful eating. We all have different genetics, gut biome, hormones, etc., and what worked for you won't do it for everybody.
    I do agree that you can't lose weight without careful eating. I haven't met anyone that could get results without careful eating.
    But not all of us can move the needle much without exercise. (With we could!)
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,484 Spam Moderator
    guidingspiritrl wrote: »
    I did say exercise is good for mental health. May be why you feel better when exercising.
    It's also BETTER for overall physical health. Can you do a pull up or push up? If you can't then it's likely because even at a normal weight, you lack strength to do it.

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  • guidingspiritrl
    guidingspiritrl Posts: 5 Member
    Just look up calories burned from each exercise and see how few calories each exercise burns. If you are a marathon runner, then you will burn enough calories, otherwise exercise is for health and not for weight loss.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,484 Spam Moderator
    guidingspiritrl wrote: »
    Just look up calories burned from each exercise and see how few calories each exercise burns. If you are a marathon runner, then you will burn enough calories, otherwise exercise is for health and not for weight loss.
    You're not understanding what I'm saying. If someone's BMR (basal metabolic rate) is say 1500 calories, if they ate 1200 calories, they can lose weight. If that same person exercised for an hour and burned 400 calories, they could eat 1600 calories and still lose weight. It's about MATH. As long as one is in a calorie deficit, they'll lose weight. If you weren't losing weight from exercising 2 hours a day, it's because you WEREN'T in calorie deficit or the deficit was too extreme.

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