I have not exercised regularly and seriously since I started in March. I have lost close to 15 pounds.

As Amanda said, I try to use that day to mow the lawn, vacuum and try to be active and also do weights on occasion.

Hi Mumo, I haven’t changed my exercise regime at all since starting almost a year ago. I swim once a week (pretty high intensity) for 1 hour and walk to & from shops etc. at weekends. I was always a stairs rather than escalator girl but I have a totally sedentary job with no real scope to introduce any exercise (other than walking 5 steps to collect the printing) at work. I’m a couple of Lb off the 3stone mark for weight loss at the moment and I thoroughly expect to be dead on 3 stone at my 1 full year weigh in.

I’ve lost the best part of three stone in five months. no exercise.

Hi!
doing exercise is more important if you are trying to lose health. it is helpful to burn calories. the regular practice will help to reduce weight throughout. but, if you make a radical changes you must follow some of the exercise which you have started earlier.

Exercise is good for your health of course and if you can exercise then do it if you want to. However, you don’t NEED to add any exercise to 5:2 in order to shift weight.

Personally, exercise is nothing but a total hinderance to losing weight for me but it is now helping me tone up (having lost 4 stone with NO CHANGE to my exercise at all).

Do what you can, if you can but don’t feel that you HAVE TO add exercise. And if you’re like me and hav never lost a lb in your life through exercise then don’t expect extra exercise to do anything but drag your weight loss to a crawl now.

On a bright side, many housewives I know seem to be rather fit. Walking does help. To me exercising can be in many forms. But I chanced upon this that provides fat loss without intensive exercising since it includes the nutrients such as amino acids for muscle mass retention.

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Hi Mumo,
Howz you ?

Well!! as per my experience i also don’t like hard workouts which made to look for any other effective method,& then as a result of my desperation to loose weight i got to know about dance workouts, Oh man you can’t even imagine how happy I was as this is the only one activity which do not ask for much input and provides the best output.

As it’s popped up on ‘recent topics’ again, I thought I’d better update my experience for those who can’t exercise or are like me and exercise does nothing for their weight.

I’ve been doing 5:2 for 3+ years and it is now a permanent part of my life. For the first 2.5 years I did not change my exercise regime at all (just swimming once a week, as explained above) and in that time I lost ALL of the 3 stone in weight and 2-3 dress sizes.

At that point I decided that I should tone up my newly svelt frame and went absolutely mental at the gym for a year, swam 4-5 times as much as I did before, as well as adding 4 different classes, from yoga & pilates to Body Combat and Boxfit at least once each per week. I initially lost a tiny bit more weight but throughout the year I put it back on and added a few more lbs until I weighed more at the end of that year than I had before I started at the gym. To be honest I don’t think I’d toned up enough to justify the increase in weight and I had kept rigidly to 5:2 throughout, so I’ve come to the sad conclusion that exercise is just contra-indicated for me as a weight loss aid.
I am naturally reasonably fit and don’t get out of breath walking up a mild hill, so I’ve decided to just not bother with ‘extra’ exercise anymore and go back to tackling the weight with diet alone. Having stopped going to the gym in May this year I am now almost the same weight again that I was before the ‘gym fiasco’ started and I’ll continue on 5:2 without extra exercise until I’ve reached my personal goal. Then I will exercise as & when I feel like it & try not to do too much and push my weight back up again.

I realize I am odd and most people would benefit from adding exercise to their 5:2 experience if they can. However there have been occasional people on this board who either couldn’t exercise for one reason or another and worried that 5:2 wouldn’t work for them because of that (hopefully I prove that that isn’t the case) and those who try 5:2 and it doesn’t work but maybe that’s because (like me) they are just not the type of person who CAN lose weight through exercise and are doing too much exercise for 5:2 to be affective for them (like I was last year).

Best of luck to everyone – I guess the lesson is to be aware as you try out different approaches and just see what works for you.

What an absolute truckload of horsefeather.

To lose that anount of weight you would need to expend more than 4000 cal of energy while taking nothing in. Physically impossible. What a joke.

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Losing weight is absolutely possible without exercise as stated by hundreds of people on these boards who have lost weight successfully on 5:2. 5:2 and Fasting improves health on so many levels, weight loss being one measure — without fancy tricks, chemicals, pills, etc. HCG injections? Not FDA approved. No thank you.

Hi, Mumo. It is possible to lose weight without exercises. You should stick to a diet, have a proper regime and stay busy, but when you lose weight without trainings you skim looks not so pretty and to make it look good you should go in for sports. That’s why a lot of people combine these two processes.
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Mumo, take heart – you’ll burn more calories walking while pushing a pram than you would just going for a walk without it. Putting the baby to sleep with the bouncing of the pram could have some side benefits for you.

Hi! I want to share my thoughts about exercising.

Honestly, I tried a bazillion things as individual exercise; I just can’t stick with it. I did gym, zumba, yoga, baladi, cycling, swimming, stretching, badminton, aquagym, snowshoeing, crosscountry skiing, walking, walkjogging, workout, etc. I hate all team sports so that is out of the question. Even functional fitness (taking the stairs, gardening, heavy housework, etc.) sucks.

I am a very lazy person, and I hate being sweaty, I hate the burning sensation in my muscles, the short breath, hate hate hate. I always hated moving my body and was shamed relentlessly for being clumsy and fat when I was younger, and none of my parents are sporty; it just was not in our values so I never built a real interest.

I’ve been thinking about how to make myself do more exercise, and so far I’ve come to the following conclusions:

– It has to be short sessions (maybe HIT like in 5:2 book), to incorporate more walking, and not doing it everyday. It has to fit in maximum 1:30 hour, commute, changing and shower included.

– it has to be super convenient: close from home, or even in the home, or be useful at the same time (let’s say scrubbing floors vigorously.)

– I gotta make myself comfy: I got myself 2nd hand gym equipment and some exercise dvd.

– I gotta keep it interesting: Once in a while I do a one-time try of a new activity, and will repeat it occasionally if I found it very enjoyable, which did not happen often; the only exercises I repeat occasionally are walking, swimming and yoga on an irregular schedule.

– It also has to be free or low cost: I’m done investing time and money in things I do not enjoy. I am only paying for yoga cause I like the ambiance at the studio.

– It must not hurt, make me feel dripping with sweat or embarass me, full stop. I don’t believe in no pain – no gain. I don’t care about performance either.

I’ve been 5:2ing for 3 weeks and so far my energy levels are still quite low. I did not lose a lot cause I did eat too much on the feast days, but I still lost a bit. I intend to lose 15 pounds first, and to very slowly add up to my routine. I do not have the intention of exercising every day as I dislike it too much to make myself do it everyday. See, it’s like the 5:2 mentality: everyone hates dieting. Doing it 2 times a week makes it easier. 🙂

you just need to lead a healthy lifestyle: get enough sleep, eat fruits and vegetables, don’t be nervous and enjoy life