How To Lose Weight If I Can'T Exercise

Currently our society lives in an epidemic of diets and instant gratification. We want our results and we want them yesterday. Everyone wants the answer and so here it is…

There is 1 reason however why you are not losing weight. Read this post below in its entirety as it is important for everyone to know this.

Your metabolism is how many calories you burn in a typical day. Every activity in your body requires some form of energy. From eating food, to lying on the couch, to sleeping. Now you could go and work out all day, or you can realize that your resting metabolism makes up 60-70% of your metabolism. Your resting metabolism is the amount of calories required to maintain your body and the basic functions you need to be alive like breathing while at complete rest. If you have a low metabolism, you are not burning many calories when you are at rest. If you have a high metabolism you burn a lot of calories when you are at rest (and most of our day is spent at relative rest).

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So if your metabolism is sluggish and low, then all the low carb diet or running on a treadmill will not help you because 60% of your entire daily caloric burn comes from your resting metabolism.

Metabolism is affected and controlled by your thyroid, and is largely a factor of your muscle mass. Every pound of muscle you put on your body requires additional calories per day to be burned just to maintain that muscle. So the more muscle you have on your body, the higher your resting metabolic rate, and the leaner you can get.

Before we go any further, please do not worry about getting big or your legs getting bigger. Unless you are under 10%(guys) or 15%(girls) bodyfat, you still have a fair amount of fat loss to go, which is what makes you look big.

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So priority #1 – put on lean muscle. If you are a part of The Bootcamp Effect, you will have plenty of full body resistance exercises to take care of you and the trainers to ensure you lift heavy enough in a safe and progressive manner.

This accounts for approximately 10-20% of your metabolism or 10-20% of daily caloric burn.The thermic effect of food is the metabolic demand that happens when we process food for storage and use. Simply put, it is how many calories your body burns when eating food. And it just so happens that protein has a thermic effect of 30% of consumed calories, which means if you eat 100g of protein in a day, (which equals 400 calories) you will get an additional metabolism burn of 120 calories per day. So protein, helps in building muscle and it makes our body work harder to process. So get to know your protein.

*Pay attention to how you feel when you eat dairy. It can be an excellent protein source, but many people have an intolerance to it. (For instance, I have stomach pains after eating greek yogurt and whey protein). If you feel bloated, lethargic, heavy, gassy, or have a stuffy or runny nose after you eat it you should consider eliminating dairy from your diet.

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Carbs, well those are vegetables, lots of them!!!! You can have the odd whole grain toast or steel cut oats with protein powder in the morning if that’s your thing. The odd piece of fruit and a yam after a workout, and only after a workout! Rice and quinoa are your best sources for complex carbs. Check out the post on chicken, rice, and broccoli for how lunch and dinner should look.

Fats – omega 3 pills (you want around 5g per day!), nuts, eggs, extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, grass fed butter (NOT MARGARINE). Be careful how many fats you add in your diet, in some cases your portions just might be too big, as fats are very high in calories! And if you feel full from lunch or dinner, don’t force feed yourself a snack or just have a protein shake.

So you can see if we looked at how many calories we could burn in a single workout by itself, people would be all about cardio because it burns more calories…(That’s how the fitness industry used to think!)

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This would be shortsighted because slow steady state cardio will actually eat away at muscle and lower your metabolism so you can see how this will backfire. You want to power that cycle of all 3 of these factors that complement each other:

We get more muscle for resistance training, we eat more protein to build muscle and burn more calories at rest, we do total body resistance training to build muscle and we stay in a state conducive for muscle growth by just doing short burst cardio intervals.

When we consume too few calories to support the above, our body basically slows down everything as it doesn’t have enough energy to function efficiently.

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Extreme low calorie dieting may work for short term (as it burns muscle in the short term, not fat…) But will kill your efforts long term.

I want to repeat that again…Low calorie diets will make you lose more muscle than fat because it is easier for the body. The bottom line is this line of thinking will plummet your metabolism. If you burn 1500 calories at rest and then do a low cal diet and lose 2lbs (of muscle), you may now burn 1400 calories at rest. So you can see how this will hurt you if you repeatedly have done this.

I have found at The Bootcamp Effect (now BEFIT) that the majority of members, especially female, have a history of dieting, and have lost muscle, as described above, over and over again by doing low calorie diets. Eventually the body gets to a point where your muscle and metabolism is so low that the low calorie diets that have worked in the past no longer works and that’s maybe why you hire a professional… And I am sorry for not hammering home this point sooner!

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If you are not eating very much and are not losing weight at a pace of 1-2lbs per week and you have some weight to lose, you need to eat more.

Dieting is just depriving the body of energy. This will work to an extent in the short term, but ramping up your body’s demands for energy – via good food like protein and resistance training is the key!

This will not only increase calories burned, but force your body to have a concern for muscle – meaning that during a caloric deficit – it won’t burn up muscle, it will burn fat stores.

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If you are struggling with losing weight and you don’t consume sugar, chips, alcohol, and limit your dairy and grains and are not losing weight, you need to eat more! And the majority of that should be from the list of proteins above.

If you can, please leave a comment below about what you will improve so that I know you have read this I would appreciate it. (And it makes it easier for me to follow up with you 🙂 )You may be watching your calories and carbs, eating enough protein, exercising regularly and doing all of the other things known to support weight loss, yet the scale won’t budge.

Read on to learn why achieving your weight loss goal can be so difficult — and whether it’s a good idea to keep trying.

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It’s estimated that weight loss programs and products generate more than $150 billion in annual profits in the US and Europe alone (

A study including more than 16, 000 adults found that about one-third of those who took weight loss pills weren’t obese before they started taking the pills (

And even if you don’t join a weight loss program or buy diet pills or products, you may end up devoting much of your free time and energy to the pursuit of being thin.

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Summary: The weight loss industry generates billions of dollars a year by capitalizing on many people’s desire to be thin at any cost.

If you’ve lost and regained weight several times in the past, or yo-yo dieted, you’ve likely found it more challenging to lose weight with each subsequent attempt.

In fact, a woman with a long history of yo-yo dieting will tend to have greater difficulty losing weight than one whose weight has remained relatively constant.

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Essentially, your body stores more fat when you begin eating more after a period of deprivation, so that it has a reserve available if calorie intake decreases again (

In addition, a recent animal study suggests that yo-yo dieting may cause an immune response in fat tissue that makes fat loss more difficult (

Gut bacteria may play a role too. Repeated cycles of losing and regaining weight seem to promote changes in gut bacteria that lead to increased weight gain over the long term (

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Moreover, women who have never been heavy in the past may struggle to maintain their usual weight as they get