QOTW......Can You Lose Weight Without...

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QOTW......Can You Lose Weight Without...
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Thu, 04-08-2004 - 6:23pm
Exercise?
 
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Registered: 11-03-2003
Fri, 04-09-2004 - 12:10am
Well, for me...Yes. I HATEHATEHATE to excersize but find fun ways to do it. But, 99% of my weight loss occured without excersize. Just changed eating habits, cut calories, stopped drinking tons of soda, and I did this one step at a time, like cutting back on regular soda, to eleiminating it, to switching to diet. Stress burns off a ton of weight, as was evident in my post A Bug's Life. Between that, near starvation, and Atkin's (NONE OF WHICH I RECOMMEND FOR LONG TERM USE, LOL!!!) I do unexcersizey things - snowboard, shop aggressively, park far away from store entrances when the weather is nice enough, have lots of sex (funny, I lost ALOT of weight quickly when I started going out with my current BF Kyle last June...Hmmm?)

Want to lose weight while having a great time ? Get a 21 year old boyfriend. REALLY.

Amy ;)

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Registered: 01-07-2004
Fri, 04-09-2004 - 8:51am
yes but what kind of wheat bread?

i am rather particial to wheatberry.

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Registered: 01-04-2004
Fri, 04-09-2004 - 9:47am
LOL. Such an innocent question. Who knew it would spark such controversy? I guess our resident troll just couldn't resist.

~~Linda

 

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Registered: 01-04-2004
Fri, 04-09-2004 - 9:50am
Well, I would take your advice and get a 21 year old boyfriend to lose weight, but I don't think my husband would like that too much! LOL!

~~Linda

 

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Registered: 12-02-2003
Fri, 04-09-2004 - 10:29am
"but I don't think my husband would like that too much! LOL!"

Mine either! They're SUCH party poopers!

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Registered: 08-23-2001
Fri, 04-09-2004 - 1:02pm
Yes. I can say absolutely because I don't exercise regularly...I have a physical job and a 3 year old but outside of my daily routines? I go on a walk now and then. But I don't "work out" or have an exercise regimen.

Now if you mean no exercise as in "i lay in bed all day and don't move except to get up and pee" then I don't know. But I do know that I've lost over 70 pounds without a set routine.

Maybe someone else would consider my daily routines exercise enough...but I think of exercise as above and beyond your normal daily activities.

Do I think you should exercise while losing weight? Absolutely. I am just a slacker in that department...but I am getting there with it.

Sarah

Sarah


 


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 04-09-2004 - 1:30pm

You can absolutely lose weight without exercise.

 

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Registered: 06-13-2003
Fri, 04-09-2004 - 2:24pm
When I was in high school, I weighed 97 pounds, probably had about 40% bodyfat and wore a size 12. Thought I was too cool to exercise.

Now I weigh 115 pounds, 20% bodyfat and wear a size 2. Exercise 5-6 days a week. Yeah I think I'm healthier now, although I wish I had started exercising when I was 97 pounds instead of having to work my way back down the scale.


Edited 4/9/2004 2:26 pm ET ET by zorbslovessporks

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Registered: 02-19-2004
Fri, 04-09-2004 - 2:34pm
I only like wheat bread if it is wearing a seatbelt while exercising!


;) Faith

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Registered: 11-03-2003
Fri, 04-09-2004 - 7:21pm
Aren't they, though ? But I have told Kyle if The Rock ever banged down our door and just HAD to have me, he can just sit down, shut up, and watch.

Amy