How can I lose weight without being able to go to the gym?

[Anonymous]

i have a disability and im not able to exercise intensely or some days at all. i'm 5'5' 190 lbs. how can i lose weight?

[Anonymous]

There is actually a lot of evidence that shows working out doesn't help a person lose weight long term. In the short term it does, but eventually the person starts burning more and more calories, so their body increases their hunger to prevent them from starving to death. This is why men eat more than women, and why professional athletes have appetites that put mine to shame. Exercise is important to good health, but not weight loss.

It is more important to eat a healthy diet. I would recommend a low carb, diet, that has most of your calories coming from fat, but most of the food comes from vegetables. The Atkins diet starts people on a more extreme version, and then slowly introduces more carbs so they can see how many carbs they can eat. So it isn't just a meat and cheese diet. The problem is most people that think they are going on the Atkins diet, have never actually read the book, and don't understand the diet they are trying to follow. The Atkins diet revolves around low carb vegetables with salt and fat to flavor them. Some people can do well on carbs, but others don't do as well.

As soon as the government frightened everyone away from healthy fats, our obesity rates went up. This is because we replaced fat with carbs, which releases insulin, which promotes weight gain. Since we stopped eating fat, and carbs raise blood pressure, we even had to cut out salt. We also stopped eating our vegetables, because you can't make most vegetables taste good without fat or salt. You can't even cover broccoli in sugar and make it taste good, but some salt and butter, or some cheese, and that is a different story.

[Rodismus]

get some exercise bands, you can use them almost anywhere, they're cheap and easy to travel with. I use mine as a substitute for a pull up bar and dumb bells.

[KaisaEeva]

One thing is watch what you eat, not saying to go on a strict diet right away, but slowly start choosing a homemade lunch over buying food. Another thing, try walking some more, even if its a short walk a couple times of the day, this usually helps increase mobility and gets you exercise, it gets easier, especially if you have someone, even a pet, to walk with. Also look at different hobbies that keep you active, one is dancing, it doesn't have to be zumba or hip hop or even ballet, but anything that gets you up annd moving. It depends on you disabiltiy, if it affects your legs a lot, look at low impact things, like swimming, and try to avoid running or things that hurt when you do them, please note there is a good pain and a bad pain, you want to feel it working, and might be sore after, but if its sharp or feels like an injury, don't do the movement. Also, ask a physical therapist, generally they know exercises that can help strengthen certain body areas, for instance I'm still getting over an ankle injury and have a hard time running, which I still do but try to focus more on strength training to let my ankle heal while doing the resistance exercises my physical therapist gave to me. Also, at a gym they generally have physical trainers, who are generally expensive but most of the time worth the money, who can help you find exercises that you can do and make sure you do them correctly.

[MissPhilippines]

i believe 80% of losing weight is diet and the other 20% is exercise. exercise is helpful cause it can help you burn calories and the very basic exercise you can do to burn calories is running/walking. i do not understand why some people are very busy and focusing on sit ups, dumbbells etc when they're still on the bigger side. those exercises i believe is for defining/toning your muscles. what's there to define if your muscles are covered with fat? eat real food.. lots of vegetables and lean meat. if you really want to lose weight fast, eliminate carbs and sugar for the MEANTIME in your diet cause carbs and sugar are the main culprit of weight gain. i'm not an expert on exercise and diet btw. good luck! :)

[wow4really]

Depending on the extent of ur disability but i would start with walking. I recently lost 40lbs and i start with the basics walking and squats and worked my way up to cardio on a recoumbant bike, abs, and weights. Just do a little every weekday and take the weekends off. Eat good all week and cheat a little on the weekends. If u tryvto do workouts that are too hard u will get overwhelmed or discouraged and then do nothing at all. Something is better than nothing.

[springocelot]

You can always walk. If your disability inhibits that, there are several exercises you can do while sitting in a chair. Combined with resistance bands or dumb bells, it would make a good strength-training workout.

[knotme]

first what's the disabilty? But cutting you calories is a sure way. How many do you think you are eating a day?

[Anonymous]

mix healthy eating with some form of exercise, exercise helps you lose faster then if you just eat healthy alone :)

[Soveriegn]

Yoga watch videos online!

[Anonymous]

Diet and walk/run