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?

Ah yes, I should point out that when you're low carbing, it is exactly that - low carbing.

The carbs that you should eat will be those provided by vegetables and salad.

BIWI,
I am following the diet in the John Briffa book and it has really worked for me. What he said about carbs seemed to make a lot of sense ( although it might not work for everyone).

OP,
John Briffa says that exercise can make you feel better and look better but won't necessarily help with weight loss. A lot of people (me included) reward themselves for exercising with a big carby snack and end up eating more than if they had not exercised!

No reason why it wouldn't work for everyone.

biwi it wouldn't work for me because I wouldn't even try it in the 1st place. Really, replace wholemeal bread, rice, potatoes etc with salad and vegetables? It is perfectly possible to lose weight and still eat all those things.

Lost 3 stone with slimming world and no exercise.

Yeah,

Stress is great for weight loss but i wouldn't recomend it.

I didn't say it was impossible.

Just that there is an increasing amount of evidence that would suggest that it's easier to lose weight if you don't eat those things.

And what's wrong with salad and vegetables?!

You are exercising plenty.

Organise a healthy diet with lower kcals so it does not exclude any food groups. Have no less than 1200kcals a day. The weight stays off better when you lose it slowly (like 1-2lbs a week) rather than any of these 'magical diets' they only make you lose it in short term and as soon as you eat regular food it tends to go back on.

Eat 6 smaller meals a day, this helps keeps your metabolism up.

Have a mix of fruit, veg, carbs and protein and use low fat for things like milk/butter. For the carbs have complex ones which release energy slowly.

Work out different breakfasts/lunches/dinners and snacks so you are having about 250 kcals for breakfast and lunch about 400 for dinner and about 75 for each snack, then you have some 'spare' to allocate to things like milk in tea/coffee etc.

Here's an interesting piece about calorie counting:

www.drbriffa.com/2012/01/05/the-nonsense-of-calorie-counting/

This is a very interesting thread. Doesn't the "eat less, move more" concept work? I want to lose 10lb (don't need to lose any), and I'm doing an hour of pump (weights class) three times a week and a two hour walk, half steeply uphill, carrying 4kg of weight three times a week. I have no idea how many calories are burned doing that.
I'm trying to eat no more than 1500 caps per day - porridge for breakfast, protein only for lunch, protein with salad or veg for supper with fruit. No bread, pasta, potatoes or booze.
Not sure how much weight I can expect to lose.

Lost 2 stone and counting by getting gallstones and having to cut fat almost completely out of my diet.

The absolute fear of getting that pain again = best motivation ever.

I don't advise this as a diet though...

biwi there is nothing wrong with salad and vegetables. There is also nothing wrong with wholemeal bread, pasta, rice etc, in moderation. How do you think people managed to not be overweight during wartime eg when rationing was in force. It was a very carb heavy diet, but somehow there wasn't a lot of obesity around.

Well, actually, there is evidence that grains aren't all that good for you.

And there wasn't a lot of obesity around before the war, either! It's a relatively modern problem.

carabos yes the 'eat less exercise more' approach does work. Although some people earn money through telling us the opposite.

biwi I know there wasn't a lot of obesity around before the war. That was because there was a lot of poverty and people had to eat whatever they could. Which would often be bread in large quantities.
I guess there weren't too many obese people around at the time of the French Revolution either, when they used to survive on bread.
Really, a bit of common sense wouldn't go amiss here.

I lost half a stone of my babyweight within a few weeks by giving up wheat after I became intolerant to gluten. I eat corn pasta (not as nice, true, but you get used to it) and gluten-free bread or Ryvita. Still eat chocolate (quite a lot!) and drink wine.

Oh and my mum is doing Dukan - she's just eating protein and veg. She's lost a lot and looks pretty good on it (though it seems a bit too extreme to me).

Well hello! 'Commonsense'?! That's a bit rude, isn't it?

The stuff I've been posting about is based on latest thinking/writing, which is based on research!

I have spent quite a lot of my life trying to lose weight by eating less and moving more. At times, with real effort and sacrifice, I have succeeded in losing a couple of stones only to put the weight back on and more. I always thought this happened because I was greedy or lazy.

Reading the John Briffa and Zoe Harcombe books has shocked me beyond belief. I feel betrayed by all of the official diet advice I have been given. I would never assume that the low carb approach is right for everyone, but it makes sense to me.

I was particularly angered/shocked by a section in the Harcombe Diet where she tries to find out the scientific basis of a calorie deficit leading to the loss of fat. There was none! It was 100 years of Chinese whispers!

Lost two stone took 5 months which is longer than it would have took without exercise, Im a couch potato hate exercise.

Thats with exercise

BIWI, low carbing totally worked for me. My mum has also lost weight, 2 stone, by eating everything in moderation but in smaller amounts( but no bread). When I tried to explain the science behind low carbing such as the way you turn your body into a fat burning machine her eyes totally glaze over. I think after years of being told low fat is the way to go to lose weight it must be odd to see me eat cream, eggs, cheese, the odd sausage etc and still lose 69 pounds.

Yes, I've lost three pounds, in fourteen and a half weeks of pregnancy. I've achieved this by cutting out alcohol and eating like an exceptionally fussy five year old. This is possibly not the best long term weight loss strategy, though.

Sorry typo 60 pounds.