anyone else just reduce cals and not excercize that much???

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  • mlh156
    mlh156 Posts: 36 Member
    Absolutely. I'd love to be doing all the other stuff... and I plan to... But in the meantime, I know I'm doing something positive for my health by dieting. I'm losing weight and it just has to be healthier for me to not be carrying around all the extra weight I used to have. I refuse to feel guilty.
  • dme1977
    dme1977 Posts: 537 Member
    THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR THE INPUT...
    Im just glad its not just me :flowerforyou:

    as far as the "skinny fat" my legs and lower stomach are getting there but ill deal with it when I get to it...:bigsmile:
  • McKayMachina
    McKayMachina Posts: 2,670 Member
    Me.

    I've lost what now...79? ...pounds by cutting calories. I don't have an exercise routine but I'm not exercise-phobic either. I just don't like to devote 30-90 minutes of my life everyday to ****ing cardio. Shoot me.

    ::shrugs::

    I'd like to get more active but I can't see a future for myself where DAILY prescribed workout routines would make any sense.
  • Huffdogg
    Huffdogg Posts: 1,934 Member
    I'd like to get more active but I can't see a future for myself where DAILY prescribed workout routines would make any sense.

    No one needs to do hours and hours of mindless cardio. 45-60 minutes of strength training 3x a week will make a DRAMATIC difference in your lean muscle, which increases your BMR, which makes your body naturally burn more calories, which of course makes you burn even more fat.
  • tekiegirl
    tekiegirl Posts: 78 Member
    When I fist came on MFP I didn't exercise that much, but over the past 6 or so months I have been exercising a lot - about 5 times per week, 200kcal + per session.

    I did lose a lot of weight to begin with, varying each week and sometimes stalling, but over the past couple of months my weight loss has ground to a halt. The only weight I lost was what I put on over Christmas! Good, but not great.

    Over the past week I have only exercised twice, about 450kcal in total, and I have been really careful to keep to my calories. I have lost 0.9kg/2lb this week!

    Why the difference? I think there are a few reasons:

    1. I am being more careful about counting calories. I think I used to underestimate my evening meals, and changing to quinoa instead of rice has made a big difference! I really recommend it. Quinoa is about 1/3 of the calories of the same dry weight of rice, and probably goes further too! You can get it in supermarkets. I have found it in the 'Free From' section in Sainsbury's and with the seeds and nuts in Morrisons. I'm sure others sell it too, in the UK and overseas.

    2. If I am not planning to exercise I know I cannot eat what I want now and burn it off later. I probably used to eat a treat and then not completely burn it off later.

    3. My body had got used to what I was eating and the amount of exercise I was doing. I plan to start mixing up the amount of exercise I do every few weeks, and also the type of exercise I do. I like my DVDs and they have a good variety of weight training and aerobics on them.

    4. I understand that exercise can cause you to retain water, so this probably has made a one-time difference in weight as well.

    I think the real key is portion and calorie control. The exercise is to tone your muscles, make sure you don't lose lean muscle, and generally keep your healthy. (I would recommend mostly weights for this with a little cardio/aerobics, from what I have read.) Exercise can be used to balance out over-consumption of food, but I find it is best not to rely on this.

    Good luck all!
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