Walking?

cammiecane

I think walking is a great way to start out. It’s easy, it burns calories, and it’ll start getting you in shape. After a while, I’ll add new fitness challenges, but I’ve always still continued walking and it worked out well the last time i did it.

Of course, all of that is assuming you’re eating right. But yeah, if you eat less calories than you burn, walking can be a great way to boost your deficit, and I find it has other benefits, like appetite suppression

lynn_glenmont

heybales wrote: »

If you eat exactly the same amount as you always have - and merely add in a lot of walking (500 cal burn worth is a lot unless trucking, and even then talking hours) - you can lose weight.

As you lose weight though - you'll have to walk even longer if you want to keep eating the same amount.
Burn less moving less weight around all day.

Generally though - if you were eating say 2500 daily - usually easier to find 500 in food to cut out.
But maybe with walking as new activity - you only need to cut out 250, so even easier.

Not necessarily. If someone needs to lose weight, we know that at some point in time they have been in a CI > CO state. Without more information, we don't know if that point in time is now, and if it is, we don't know how much more their CI is than their CO. If someone is currently in a CI > CO state, and they merely "add in a lot of walking" -- even enough to burn 500 kcal (roughly 90 mins at a very brisk 4 mph for an 180 lb individual) -- it's not a given that they're going to lose weight. Maybe their calorie surplus before walking was 500 kcal or more.


Also, your post seems built around the idea that you can only lose on 500 kcal deficit. You can lose weight on a deficit of any size, at varying paces.

jgnatca

Many of us are losing weight to get healthier, right? Walking is just a more direct route to health.

I enjoy exercising far more than calorie restriction. I get greater cardiovascular benefits, strength and mobility. I find the health benefits more direct than weight loss where the water weight fluctuations seem more in tune with the phases of the moon than my caloric intake.

heybales

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

heybales wrote: »

If you eat exactly the same amount as you always have - and merely add in a lot of walking (500 cal burn worth is a lot unless trucking, and even then talking hours) - you can lose weight.

As you lose weight though - you'll have to walk even longer if you want to keep eating the same amount.
Burn less moving less weight around all day.

Generally though - if you were eating say 2500 daily - usually easier to find 500 in food to cut out.
But maybe with walking as new activity - you only need to cut out 250, so even easier.

Also, your post seems built around the idea that you can only lose on 500 kcal deficit. You can lose weight on a deficit of any size, at varying paces.

Merely a common round number to use as an example. Obviously could be a lot less, and obviously take a long long time to see it. Of course could lose on any uneven number.

Hardly see where I'm claiming can only lose on 500 though, that was a parenthetical comment - the main comment used no numbers or time for the walking or rate of the loss.

So yes actually - you add in a lot of walking (to cover what you eat and more) you can lose weight.

Also used example 500 as likely big enough to cover someone indeed eating in surplus slightly, slowly gaining over the years.
I've found very few examples (excepting lifters bulking or recovery ED both for short periods) of ones that are eating in surplus by 500 or more each and every day, gaining 1 lb or more weekly of fat. Possible sure.

maureenkhilde

When I started on May 6 2018, I huffed to walk 7 minutes and complained to myself every step. Now on average I am walking at least 30 minutes every day. Hitting 4,000 steps every day, and on weekends now up to 8,000. And joining a run/walk group in August. I am using walking more as an added bonus to become healthier than to lose weight. Kind of an added tool. Because I am losing weight, I am finding the willpower to make sure I become more active. To me yes walking has helped me lose weight.