Lose Weight, Without the Exercise

That's right ladies and gents, there IS a way that you can lose weight without ANY exercise. No more laboring over treadmills and toiling on workout machines. No more muscle pain and physiotherapy from over-worked ligaments. Best of all, you can save a lot of $ on gym memberships, home work-out equipments, and weight loss protein shakes.

Of course, as with anything, there is a caveat to this - you can't just move around without doing anything. It's just that you don't need to do extra exercise on top of why you've already been doing everyday (i.e. walking to work).

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This all started one summer when I wanted to see what would happen if I ate only veggies - namely, salads - all day and all night. So I researched on all the different types of salads that I could easily make at home - Caesar, Cobb, garden, taco. I stuck with the regular lettuce leafs and arugula as the base, and added whatever fixings I wanted - like tomato, cucumber, carrots.

I also added in some extra fixings like raisins, cranberry, and sunflower seeds for extra texture and crunch. For protein I'd add in some nuts or some shaved Parmesan on top.

For the salad dressing, I'd actually make my own with vinegraitte. Occasionally I'd treat myself to a Thousand Island dressing (which is high in calories but what the heck, once in a while is fine).

Then, just shake it up inside a lunch container, and voila! The best thing about it was that I could eat however much I wanted without gaining weight! But usually, I'd get pretty full from simply chewing on the leafs alone.

Of course, you still do get hungry during the course of the day. So for snacks, I'd munch on a bag of carrots (so much so that I turned slightly orange for a period of time).

After a month of my all-salad no-extra-exercise diet, I lost 10 pounds. That's right, 10 pounds from essentially taking out the carbs from my diet. And the best part was that I kept it off.

That's not to say of course that you can't take in any carbs - I would eat some carbs in the morning like buttered croissant or bread with jam. So the downside is that yes, you will free energy-deprived at times, but the upside? 10 pounds and no exercise!

If I had to do it again, I'd probably increase my lean meat intake and opt in for some exercise to maintain a healthy metabolism. Read this article for a holistic way of weightloss!