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Anonymous
Hello /fit/.

I've lost 5 lbs in 4 weeks by just eating less. No exercise. I'm currently 224 lbs down from approximately 280. Over the past year I've done exercise sporadically but I find I don't tend to stick with it. I have three meals and get around 1700 calories daily and I'm never really hungry. If I feel peckish, I get a yoghurt or a granola bar.
Are there any drawbacks to losing weight this way?

I have a bunch of weights and a barbell at home. I have a pull up bar, a bench and a stationary bike. But I can't bring myself to exercise regularly. I'm considering going swimming three times a week.
>> Anonymous
enjoy your saggy skin which is what you will get if you dont start lifting you dumb fuck
>> Anonymous
>>310798
I thought you only got saggy skin if you lose a lot of weight quickly. I've lost my 54 lbs over the course of a year. It's about a 1lb a week.
>> Anonymous
The drawback is that you will get to a point where you stop losing weight, and the only way to lose more weight is to exercise because otherwise you'd need to drop your calories to far too little. I think for people who are at the weight you were, it's fine to start out by fixing your nutrition (as you've done) but eventually you should see about exercising. You just need to do it enough that it becomes a habit, rather than something that interferes with your everyday life. This usually takes a couple of weeks.
>> Anonymous
>>310804
If you diet only and not lift shit you will lose muscle
>> Anonymous
>>310820
With less muscle calories, the body will have to burn less calories, forcing him even more to hunger. Also, nasty side effect of hunger: your metabolism slows, so you burn even less calories.

It's a vicious cycle. If you diet without proper nutrition and exercise, you'll never fully lose your weight BUT YOU WILL lose your muscles
>> Anonymous
>>310842

If you diet only, you'll lose fat, too. The only issue is that it will require you get to a much lower weight before you "look good".

IE, one person could go from 280 to 180 and have nice muscles at 180 from working out, the person who only dieted won't stop looking fat until they at least hit 150 or 140 because of how small their muscles are. This is exactly what happened to me. I lost from 250 to 170 and I was still "fat", just not the bloated lard I used to be. I had to lose almost 30 more pounds once i hit 170 before I started looking "normal", but by that time I was just a skinnyfag so I had to start lifting.
>> Anonymous
>>310804

It doesn't really matter how fast or how much you exercise. If you were obese for a long time (3 or more years), your skin elasticity is already down the drain. There's almost no avoiding loose skin unless you fill the skin out with muscles or get surgery.
>> Anonymous
studies have shown that people who have a caloric deficit of 500 achieved by diet and exercise lost more weight than those who had the same caloric deficit by only diet or exercise.