Can you lose without exercise? Discouraged, prob. impatient.

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  • nlhill79
    nlhill79 Posts: 60 Member

    Yes, I actually use a cloth that I tie "moby style." It's just really hot, so sometimes the baby doesn't handle it well. I'm immune to sweating and heat because I have lived in S.E. Louisiana all my life. It's been nearly 100 here every day, so we have been going to the mall and walking.

    I have friends use a long piece of muslin when it's warmer?

    Granted we don't have your kind of heat over here but mine seemed to cope better with our hot days with increased skin to skin contact. Veeery sweaty for me, but seemed to help them stablise their temperatures.

    I'm certain your activity level isn't sedentary. I've got two and I know I barely get a chance to sit down for a cup of tea, let alone hours at a time

    That's right! It's just that my heart rate doesn't go up, so I am not counting it as official exercise. Yes, I don't get to sit for any long periods of time. And as for the muslin, I'm going to go to the fabrics store a.s.a.p. for that. I had one that was some type of very light jersey with tiny holes all in it, but after several years it gave out. Now it stretches too much when I put her in it. It served me well though. I used it the for my 3rd child 'til she was 2. The one I'm using now is stretchy knit; way too hot. Thanks for the tip!
  • specialemy
    specialemy Posts: 141 Member
    I do not have children, so forgive my ignorace. How many months is she? Why are you always holding her?

    But as the other posters have mentioned, I think a walk in the stroller would be nice. I also think you should give yourself more credit. You have FOUR children, one of whom is an infant. That has to be super tiring and demanding and you are still trying to find ways to get healthy and fit.

    Kudos!

    Exactly! You have four kiddies and you seem to get a lot of activity within your 'normal' day. Kudos to you too! How about just increasing your water intake?
  • placeboaddiction
    placeboaddiction Posts: 451 Member
    I've lost all 70 of my pounds (my weight fluctuates but is going down) without exercising... at least on purpose. If you look at my pics, it turns out underneath all that lard I carried, I still had the muscle from when I was an athlete in high school or something.

    The suggested math behind weight loss is this.

    A pound of calories is about 3500 calories.
    Find out your maintain weight calories. (the calories you need to maintain).
    then set your goal (1 lb or 2 lbs or .5 lbs a week).
    Cut that many calories out.

    So the math would for me to lost a pound a day would be..

    2550 calories for me to maintain a day.
    17850 (2550x7=17850) calories for me to maintain a week.
    17850-3500(1lb of calories)=14350 calories to lose 1 lb a week
    14350(Total calories needed weekly to lose 1 lb)/7(7 days a week)=2050.

    To lose a pound a week I'd need to eat at most 2050 a week.

    I love math.
  • nlhill79
    nlhill79 Posts: 60 Member
    I've lost all 70 of my pounds (my weight fluctuates but is going down) without exercising... at least on purpose. If you look at my pics, it turns out underneath all that lard I carried, I still had the muscle from when I was an athlete in high school or something.

    The suggested math behind weight loss is this.

    A pound of calories is about 3500 calories.
    Find out your maintain weight calories. (the calories you need to maintain).
    then set your goal (1 lb or 2 lbs or .5 lbs a week).
    Cut that many calories out.

    So the math would for me to lost a pound a day would be..

    2550 calories for me to maintain a day.
    17850 (2550x7=17850) calories for me to maintain a week.
    17850-3500(1lb of calories)=14350 calories to lose 1 lb a week
    14350(Total calories needed weekly to lose 1 lb)/7(7 days a week)=2050.

    To lose a pound a week I'd need to eat at most 2050 a week.

    I love math.


    This gives me hope and is also helpful to me. I used to do LOTS of weight lifting and training. I was NEVER thin, or sculpted probably because my mom thought to feed me exclusively ice cream, pizza, and dr. pepper until I was old enough to realize that wasn't right.. I worked out with a trainer that I also worked with and she just couldn't figure me out. She put me through intense workouts and watched what I ate. From what I've been reading, I probably wasn't eating nearly enough food to get to my goal.

    Okay, wait. I just did the math.
    So if I want to be 175, my calorie intake for the day would be 1920 on sedentary.
    1920 x 7 = 13440
    13440-3500 = 9940
    9940/7=1420

    1420??? Whoa! That seems like extreme for calorie cutting. Or did I do this wrong?
  • Zalli
    Zalli Posts: 132 Member
    By switching to a low-carb diet, I have lost almost 30 lbs in under 3 months without changing my exercise routine. I don't do any intense exercise, just my walk to and from work which is about 45 min a day total. I also increased the amount of water I drink, by almost double!

    Since the only thing I changed when I started to lose weight was my diet, I would say yes! You can lose with diet alone. But I do recommend trying to go for at least a 20 minute walk a day, or get active somehow EVERY day. Doesn't have to be intense. You have a toddler around so I think you should be good in that department!

    Yes, I agree with this too. I've been losing weight slowly but surely ( 17 pounds over 4 months) without much change in my exercise habits. Focusing on making my diet as healthy as possible first and foremost and fitting in exercise when I can but not stressing about it--I seldom log official exercise workouts but I am fairly active at my job and walk regularly.
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