Anyone Else Trying To Do This Without Increasing Exercise?

Do you get the same feeling of sickness with travelling or fairground rides etc? .. Maybe it's the motion like if you trying to do sit ups etc or move fast if your head is up and down from laying down to do exercises then sitting up or standing up repeatedly?.. Could be a vestibular problem? Or blood pressure issue?

And weight loss without resistance training will result in lean mass loss as well.

maybe you are pushing yourself too hard

Often people feel sick after working out if they did not eat properly before the workout to fuel it. Even if it's just a banana or an energy bar 45 minute before, it can make a big difference.

Plain old walking works just as good! Anything you do that doesn't have your butt planted on the couch is better than nothing.

well if your doctor doesnt know then i prob cant help but when i first started i felt sick to ,, i found that eating something with suagr after made me feel better also i found excercising at night helped because if i did end up feeling ill i could go and sleep it off ,,,,,,,, now i dont get sick at all unless i push myself to far also to much caffiene makes me sick even if i had the caffiene at the start of the day and didnt excercise until night it will still make me sick

another thing is how i drink my water if i take into much at once it makes me feel like throwing up so i drink it slowly through out my work out

I lost my first 20lbs when I was about 13 without any increase in exercise. I had a pretty bad diet at the time though. I drank an absurd amount of soda, snacked on cookies and sweets a lot, and ate a good deal of fried food. I switched to only water, stopped eating sweets, reduced portion sizes, and opted for grilled options over fried. That was successful, but I've been hovering at that weight since then (I'm 22 now). I tried several other times to lose weight, but I never saw much change unless I add exercise into it.

I'm trying to lose the last 15-20 now, and exercise has been pretty helpful. I honestly don't think I'd be able to get lower without it. My diet was already pretty good, so the only thing really left to change was my exercise patterns. But keep in mind, even going for a walk helps. You don't have to be busting out an hour on the treadmill every day. Start yourself out and work up when you can.

absolutely....

working 12-14 hrs a day with 3 kids and a husband - who has time for exercise.....just hoping that watching my calories will work...Am hoping that in the near future I might find time to throw in a few sit ups or lunges in the back yard but until then it is plain old calorie counting for me

I really belong on the "I hate exercise couch" too. And I am not so sure how to get off the couch. I am not exactly sure how much I will exercise. I will probably have to trick myself into calling it something different. Like I might dance. Or do yard work. I am better with fun stuff. I'd like to play a sport but would like to lose 20 pounds before making a fool out of myself ... errr, I mean joining any sort of team.

Does typing on my iPhone count as exercise? I am sure I've burned a few calories.

I have yet to find an exercise I actually enjoy doing. I tolerate walking, but I prefer a walking buddy to going alone and I don't have one. So my journey has been mostly diet. I just try to get up and move, clean, take stairs, park in the back, etc as much as possible. I can't wait to be able to get a treadmill, then I can get a good work out in while watching TV.

I've had a series of illness and accidents so exercise was extremely limited for me when I first started so I wasn't really that gung-ho to start exercising when it seemed like every time I did I got hurt.

So I started with diet alone, (okay that and my 10-minute walk to and from the train station every day, which was transportation not exercise BUT I STILL LOGGED IT).

I did the 1st 25 lbs that way. As long as I stayed with my calories I did pretty well. (When I was on lose 1 lb a week, I didn't lose during my TOM, so it came out to 3 lbs a month, Slow, but consistent, I'll take it. )

I could only handle so much change at once.
If I become overwhelmed I give up. So I started with diet... knowing that there is so much more I COULD do.

But the thing is you don't have to be perfect you just have to do better.

So I started logging my food and every couple of weeks I see where I can make another couple of small changes.
If you completely revamp your diet, it's way easy to revert to old ways in times of stress. (and who doesn't have stress?)
If you make a series of small changes, food still offers you some sense of comfort.
sort of a comfort continuum, and after a while the first small changes will seem comforting in themselves.

So, I did start keeping track of little things like how many times a day I went up and down the stairs at work.
then I started going out of my way to take the stairs. In nice weather I got off of the train a stop early.
Baby steps, I increased my activities, by baby steps... I eventually talk myself into joining a gym, and to get myself going I said "just 10-minutes", if I was unhappy after 10-minutes. I could call it quits.

So I I've gotten sick again so I've done nothing for the past 3-4 weeks.
And I've increase my calories pretty close to my maintenance level (kind of scary to do it all at once.)

You can do it with out exercise, I wouldn't stress it right now, but I gotta say now that it's easier to move I like how it feels.
It's not all or nothing gym rat or couch potato... you can add some little things that you enjoy and results or not you'll still have had fun.

So have a protein bar instead. Still has carbs to keep sugar level up and has more protein to help you feel full longer and keep muscle production up

I have yet to find an exercise I actually enjoy doing. I tolerate walking, but I prefer a walking buddy to going alone and I don't have one. So my journey has been mostly diet. I just try to get up and move, clean, take stairs, park in the back, etc as much as possible. I can't wait to be able to get a treadmill, then I can get a good work out in while watching TV.

I don't like exercise, either. I tolerate it as well, which is why I'm SO glad that the machines at my gym have personal TVs attached! :laugh: