Can u lose without working out?

I lost 50 lbs without exercising at all. Now that i reached my goal, I am exercising because I did lose a LOT of muscle AND fat. I lost my first 40 lbs in 4 months so yes, it still comes off fast.

Maybe if you drop down below 1200 calories a day. I can't lose weight at 1200 (or more) unless I exercise.

Of course, if you're morbidly obese you can lose weight easily without much work, so diet alone might work in that scenario.

Yes, it is possible to lose weight without exercise. It just won't be as healthy or as a quick a weight loss. However, even though I am not a good example because I'm just beginning an exercise program, I know that when I excercised before I felt better and more energetic. Anyway, good luck with your diet!

Yes, there are people who lose loads of weight without incorporating exercise into their new lifestyle. Personally, however, I could never stick to any meal/calorie plans until I started exercising. For me, at least, they go hand-in-hand.

Yes, it's definitely possible to lose weight without working out. I had to stop working out for a few weeks after I pulled a muscle but I was still eating healthy and ended up still losing. As long as you create a calorie deficit, you will still lose weight. That being said, as others have mentioned, it's really important to eat healthy so that your body is getting all the nutrients it needs. And you should exercise if you can to get all the health benefits from that as well. It's not just about losing weight, it's about being healthy!

you will lose weight, but not body fat. the scale will tell you a smaller number but you won't have the ideal "skinny" body.

Huh? "You will lose weight but not body fat?" Nonsense!

You could do NO exercise and lose weight. That being said, it is good to exercise but not at all necessary to lose weight.

I disagree, it's not non-sense. Evolutionary speaking, our body is very intelligent and keeping unneeded muscle around isn't beneficial to survival. Keeping stores of energy that cost nearly nothing is good. Those stores of energy would be fat.

If you don't exercise, you'll lose some bodyfat and a lot of muscle. In addition this, the flip side is true. If you have a higher muscle mass and use said muscle mass often, your body has no choice but to burn fat and not muscle. This and hormones is why guys generally find it "easier" to lose weight than girls.

You can disagree but that doesn't change the fact that you can lose weight (FAT) without exercising. Change in your diet is all one needs for weight loss. I wasn't going into what is BEST for the body or why one should exercise. I agree it is great and I do it but not for weight loss.

There is more to body weight than just fat. There is bone mass, which is fairly difficult to increase or decrease, there is organ weight, again fairly difficult to increase or decrease, water weight, which is very easy to increase and decrease, and muscle weight which is easy to decrease and hard to increase.

Just because someone loses weight doesn't mean it's automatically fat. Our bodies are predisposed to losing the caloric expensive weight first; that'd be muscle.

So once again, yes, you can lose weight without exercising, but it'll be mostly muscle, not fat. In particular, women are usually way more prone to losing muscle than fat -- the whole "geared towards giving birth" thing kind of plays a number on their bodies. Because you lose muscle without exercise, you'll eventually plateau a lot quicker and see severe diminishing returns.

In short, I agree with you that you lose weight when you don't exercise, but I disagree with you that you lose fat when you don't exercise.

Yes, it is possible to lose weight without exercise. It just won't be as healthy

You're going to have to prove that "it won't be as healthy" with some solid evidence to support your claim.

or as a quick a weight loss.

Pretty incorrect here as well. If you're at a 500-700 calorie deficit (the most that most people's bodies can handle), you will lose weight. That doesn't require exercise. Period.

Yes you will lose weight. This is something I read somewhere online, can't remember where, I'm paraphrasing here, 'If you want to look good with your clothes on then change your diet, if you want to look good with your clothes off then lift some weights/exercise.'

Wow thanks everyone or all your info! I just want you guys to know I do a little walking during the week and do at lease 30mins of dance five days a week. I am tryig to change my eating habits but it's hard when my husband doesn't want any healthy food. So making two different dinners frustrates me sometimes. Thanks again guys!

Well the hubby can eat what he is given or cook his own. Is he overweight?