to ask have you lost weight wirhout exercising?

[bejeezus]

I need to loose 2 stone

I know the bottom line is that you need to burn more calories than you eat. I also understand that the types of food you eat can make this easier or harder to do

I have no opportunity to fit in any extra exercise. I do cycle to work, so 6 miles 3 times a week. I walk about 4 miles on another day and rollerskate for 2 hours once a week. Cannot get child free time to increase beyond this

Has anyone of you successfully lost weight with diet modification alone?

yes i lost 2 stones on slimmingworld before, with not much exercise. i did a bit of exercise bike at home but sounds like i was doing less exercise than what you are currently doing. it didnt take that long to lose it, i stuck to the plan 100% mostly with a couple of bad weeks here and there. i put it all back on after tho but think that was due to pregnancy and using pregnancy as an excuse to eat chocolate etc
so yes im sure you can lose 2 stones by diet and keeping the same amount of exercise you are currently doing.
good luck

Yes I lost 13 stones over a year with no exercise whatsoever. It's easier running now I don't have to carry another person constantly.

Don't forget that you can also incorporate exercise into your daily life, as well as setting aside time for formal workouts, just by increasing your general level of activity. Little things such as climbing the stairs instead of taking the lift, walking instead of driving, taking a couple of minutes to do a few squats or push ups, playing in an active way with your children. All these things add up over the week.

13 stone in a year??

Wow Coconutmummy well done!!

Yes - I got down to my ideal weight by cutting out sugar, anything high in fat and eating whole grains as much as possible - no more white bread, white pasta, rice etc.

I am a pig so didn't want to go hungry - but by eating the right things I could still have big portions.

And I don't do any 'structured' exercise, but am always on the go (apart from when I'm at work )

I lost 4 stone in 6 months. I did a lot of heavy lifting and carrying but apart from that I just hardly ever ate. I ended up with a load of flabby skin left on my abdomen and despite fitting into a size 10 I still had excess skin, so I wouldn't advise my stupid method.

Weight loss is about diet, exercise only plays a small part. You are doing enough exercise but need to be strict about what you eat - use myfitnesspal, monitor what you eat, and cut down on carbs, esp sugar and wheat and keep carb portion of potatoes and rice small.

Easier to cut out sweet treats on a lower carb diet, read potatoes not prozac.

Op keep up the cycling, it increases core stability if your bike is set up correctly and will give you a good cardio work out on those three miles to work and then back (if that's what you are doing) as well as working your biggest muscle groups in your upper and lower legs.

How long does it take you to cycle the three miles to work or 6 miles? Ifyou work on increasing your exercise within the same time this will increase your fitness and calorie burn rather than taking up more time - which you haven't got.

can you time your cycle ride and then work on decreasing your cycle ride to work? therefore increasing your speed - so you get to race against yourself each time you get on the bike.

Take your breakfast to work with you to eat when you finish your ride.

You walk two hours per week - this is ideal as well for racing against the clock, no need to increase time but increase speed and then add on meters to your walk by deviating your route. Can you fling on a gym kit and run your walk for part of the way and incoperate the couch to 5km in this time - running will increase your calorie count against walking.

My fitness pal is an online calorie counter. It uses your height and weight to work out how many calories you need to lose either 1 or 2lb a week and you put in all that you eat, most things are already in there and it has a bar code scanner too. I am allowed 1210 a day. You also add in any exercise you do to and it let's you eat more. Toy burn a surprising amount with an hours walking a day and an hours housework!

I have been losing (apart from over Christmas ) about a kilo a week. Have lost about 18lb since November. It has dropped to about a lb a week now so I may need to cut out booze for a whole to shift the last stone. I am trying to build muscles with a few minutes of light weights, lunges and crunches in front of the tv every night but that has slipped the last week or do, need to get back on it

Yabu.

Yes you can and sensible weight loss won't make your skin flabby either.

I'm sort of following the clean and lean diet at the moment and finding it fairly easy and am losing about 2lbs a week.

I do pilates but thats not exactly cardio is it

Dukan diet worked for me

2 stone in less than 2 months - no exercise

Was hard to stick to at first but got easier

The more you exercise the more you increase your metabolism though, making weight loss easier. I think to lose just a lb you need to create a deficit if 3,500 calories. Unless you are really greedy in the first place so can cut out lots from your daily diet, a few good walks or cycles are going to help you reach that figure much more easily.

Ooh I have you tube on my tv, might try some Pilates

Wow great to hear everyones success stories.
Bejeezus, I cut the carbs quite gradually and it was hard but not as bad as when I stopped eating chocolate at the beginning as I was really addicted. To be honest I was hungry all the time but I have lost 60 pounds of flab which amounts to burning of 210,000 calories!
I am pleased I have done it and now look completely different.

I have cut carbs a fair bit as I find it the easiest way to stick within my limits without having to completely go with my beloved wine, butter and cheese.

I can lose weight without excersise, but I have to eat next to nothing to keep it off long term.

Low carb high protein.

I'd agree with what IvyKaty said, increasing the intensity of your exercise could help burn more calories but spend no more time exercising.

Maybe get a speedometer for the bike so you can work on your average speed, or time yourself cycling / walking and try to improve on it?? This works well for me :)

Yes. I stick to a low GI diet when my trousers get too tight. Weight comes of steadily - 2 or 3 lbs a week.

I have just done 20 minutes of that pilates youtube video I linked to - its good go on give it a try...

You don't need to go completely carb-free, just cut down on them a lot. I am doing a lower carb, 1500 calorie diet which still allows me to eat some bread, pasta, potatoes etc, just a lot less than previously and have lost 1/2 stone in less than 3 weeks. I've found that eating carbs tends to make me feel hungrier if anything. Protein is digested much more slowly and so you feel full for longer.

I haven't really done any more exercise than normal, although I do have a fairly active job. If you're already doing a lot of exercise and have still piled on the weight then you're probably eating quite a bit in excess of what you need to maintain weight, so may need to cut quite a few calories out to lose weight and/or make your exercise more intense as others have said.

Carbs have the effect of making you hungrier, bejeezus. If you take in more than 30g of carbs in any one go (big plate of pasta, chocolates, etc), then your blood sugar will spike rapidly - and then fall just as rapidly, making you hungry.

It's why, if you have a carby breakfast (which most people do have - cereals, toast, etc) you will be ravenous by 11.00, and grab a biscuit (or two!). After lunch - sandwich, crisps, chocolate bar - the same thing will happen, which is why you get the 3.00pm need for something sweet! So you're constantly yo-yoing between too much/too little blood sugar - meaning you're frequently hungry and you're also laying down fat.

The body produces insulin to 'sweep up' the blood sugar, but excess is turned into fat.

If you eat a low carb diet your blood sugar levels are much more stable, and therefore the amount of insulin released is lower and you don't lay down fat.

The biggest advantage, though, is that it acts as an appetite suppressant.

And if your diet is rich in protein, this is also much more satiating than carbohydrate, so you will not feel hungry as quickly.

I can thoroughly recommend this book:

www.amazon.co.uk/Escape-Diet-Trap-John-Briffa/dp/0007442432

It talks about the many myths surrounding dieting/losing weight, in particular the notion that low calorie/low fat is the way to go.

Yes - over the last three years, I've gone from 12 stone (which was just about within the healthy BMI range for my height) down to 9 stone. No increase in exercise. TBH i look a bit gaunt now.

I lost almost 5 stone on Slimming World after DC2 & to date have lost almost 2st on SW after DC3 (born in May) - still need to lose 1st more really. I do exercise too but loads in my group are losing loads of weight with no exercise at all.

You sound like you're doing quite a bit of exercise & with SW you can eat a lot of food including carbs - its all about healthy eating & treats in moderation.

Coconutmummy - 13 st wow! How did you manage that?