How to lose weight without exercising

[Ramanujan]

How do I lose weight without exercising

[bazera]

It's simple, you eat in a caloric deficit. 

If you are too lazy to count calories, just eat less than you are used to.

If you want to boost the process even more, eat less carbs than you're used to.

Just exercising won't make you lose fat anyways, you do that through less eating. But exercise will build muscle, improve cardiovascular health, and benefit you in so many other ways.

But if you want to strictly loss weight and see number go down on a scale, you can do that without exercising.

Edited March 15 by bazera

[Ramanujan]

@bazera thanks man

Appreciate it

[Ramasta9]

Eat as much fresh fruit as you want and if you can only eat fruit for 2 - 3 weeks, your weight, health and even life can be transformed.

Why so simple? Cause that's nature, simple, yet divine. No exercise needed, and if you want muscle later, exercise more. Yes even with fruit you can build muscle.

Its all about consistency. Otherwise fast for a week and you will lose 10 - 20+ lbs easily. 

Edited March 15 by Ramasta9

[bazera]

18 minutes ago, Ramasta9 said:

Otherwise fast for a week and you will lose 10 - 20+ lbs easily. 

That will be regained very quickly.

Last year I lost 33 pounds through caloric deficit and exercise, but then in 5-6 months I gained it all back and more. I realized I had to completely change my eating habits long term to lose and, more importantly, maintain a healthy range of weight.

Eating fruit or fasting for 2-3 weeks are fine, but he can't do that long term and probably he'll regain all that weight back, and potentially more because he will be deprived of all the food he liked and possibly overeat.

Better strategy is don't change your food categories much, just decrease portion size.

If you want to go step further, remove processed and junk food and maintain caloric deficit.

If you want to go step further, add 60-80m cardio a week.

Next, if you want to go even further start weight lifting and track your protein intake. Also track your carb intake because you'll need energy for exercising.

And realize that once you see your desired number on a scale, it doesn't end there. Actually your journey of health maintenance starts there. You've to somehow build and maintain long-term eating and exercise plan, or else sooner or later you'll end up being the same weight or more as you are now. 

More likely as you age.

Edited March 15 by bazera

[Judy2]

On 15/03/2026 at 1:23 PM, Ramanujan said:

How do I lose weight without exercising

why do you not want to exercise?

it definitely has benefits for both mental and physical well-being, plus it raises your overall caloric needs, if that's what you're after.

why live a life where you move as little as possible? it can be very fulfilling to engage physically with the world - it's also what your body's made for.

if you have some sort of exercise trauma from school - i do, and i still hate team sports - you can experiment a little with other forms of exercise to find the right fit for you that's pleasurable and truly feels good in the moment.