Who has had success with weight loss and no exercise

I try to get some form of exercise in at least 4-5 days a week an hr or more per day, depending on what's going on. It really is a matter of what you feel comfortable with.

You can lose weight with no exercise, but at your goal weight you will be "skinny fat" as you will lose a lot of lean muscle.

You don't have to go crazy I only exercise 4-5 times/week 30 minutes each session (plus I do bike to and from work some days)

The benefits of exercise have little to do with weight loss. If you are tired I have a question.
Are you eating back the calories you burn? If not that is where you should start, as your goal caloric intake on MFP assumes no exercise, once you exercise you need more cals to fuel your body.

I lost about 7 pounds this way over about a 2 week span, but it was very, very hard. I constantly thought about food, and I limited myself to one meal a day. I couldn't keep it up long term.

if you eat lower carb... or basically cut out most grain products and anything processed from your diet, you probably would lose plenty of weight without exercise. But exercise is great for you!

I try to exercise almost everyday, but lately I've been feeling awfully tired, but am staying with my calories. Has anyone had success with just diet alone? If you think exercise is the way to go - how much do you exercise per day and how many days per week? I need to find a happy medium between diet and exercise.

What you eat is 90% of your weight loss... If that helps any.. You will not tone up that way but you will lose if you eat the right foods..

oh, I was also feeling really tired - my dr.did a blood test and I had a vitamin D deficiency. I take a supplement daily and it helps!

A long time ago I lost 85 lbs without exercising. Take a guess at how long it took to gain it all back?? You can do it, but it will be extremely hard to maintain once you get there, and you won't feel healthy. At that time I was thin, but not healthy in the least and actually felt horrible.

I would -never- recommend anyone do this without a healthy mix of diet and exercise.

It sounds like you need either a temporary break or an improvement in your nutrition balance. I didn't try to look at your food diary, but I get that problem whenever I cut the calories. My body tries to lower my metabolism, and so I feel REALLY tired. What that suggests is that NOT exercising might NOT be your best option. I try to fit it into spurts, as someone else suggested. I'm trying to nix using the elevator at work (I work on the 9th floor). I park further away from my destinations. I go for walks at lunch. I may use the elliptical for interval training for only 20 minutes at a time. None of this is huge, but it keeps me exercising while not making fitting it into my busy schedule ridiculous and unmaintainable. I'd try to MODERATE my exercise rather than giving it up, because you may end up MORE tired.

The definitive answer here is based on what your goal is. Do you want to look at the scale and see a lower number? Then yes, you are on the right track.

On the other hand, is your goal to feel great, have more energy (yes, you will) that you did before, look great and actually BE healthier? If this is more in line with what you need to do, then you need to exercise.

Clean eating and laziness aren't the prime way to get to where you need to be. You will be tired if you don't fuel your body, and you should be tired at the end of the day. Keep switching it up, but keep working out. You CAN lose weight without it, but there's a strong likelihood you won't - unless you get your exercise in as well.

In the mid '90's I lost about 70 lbs with diet alone. I lost massive amounts of muscle in the process, though.

I have the opposite problem- I love the workout I do (zumba) but messed my knees up so badly that I can barely walk, let alone zumba and it depresses me... i'm really worried I won't be able to lose just based on food alone, since I had lost 50 lbs just from doing zumba (not even watching my food), but once I was forced to cut down how much I do it, 20 lbs piled back on almost immediately. Hoping, like you, that it doesn't require exercise to lose this.

You can easily lose weight slowly without exercise. But you will have to be strict on your diet because you will not have the muscle mass nor the boosted metabolism of an exerciser.

The weightloss won't be much of the problem, it will be the maintanence. Since you will have no lee way, an average metabolism, no muscle tone, your diet will have to be strictly regulated for life or your weight will yo yo.