Simple Chinese proverb a good inspiration for exercise?

jllove871

Sounds silly but here is my recent idea to lose weight..... Would love feed back. Plan name "Journey of a thousand miles" Strapping on a pedometer I walk 5 miles per day at and average of 3.0 miles per hour over the next 200 days. I would be burning 477 calories a day for a total calorie burn in the next six and a half months of 95,455 calories. Now they say To lose a pound of fat, you must burn 3,500 calories. So if I maintained a low healthy calorie intake I could lose 4.5 lbs a month just from walking and I would have a quest of 1000 mi to drive me on. Goals are a big push to me so the challenge og logging all those miles would be encouraging. Add in calories burned from strength training and the calories naturally burned during the day I think it is possible to up the safe 1 to 2 lb weight loss per week to 3-4 lbs a week bringing my goal of 60 lbs to lose possible in much shorter time period, say 5 months vs 8 months. Is this an attainable goal?

Determinednoob

It is only "safe" to lose as much as it is safe to lose at any given time. The more you have to lose, the safer a higher amount is. I think 2lbs per week is safe all the way down to at least 10% bf (for a man). I think more is safe if you are higher bf.

jllove871

I have 60 lbs to loose and BMI is I think 31, not so good! So I could probably do this for a while safely? I think.

jllove871

Also I checked out your profile and see you have done a lot of weight lifting so I wonder if you could give some advice. i was gidted with naturally muscular legs, not fat muscle....not something a girl really wants, but I do love to spend some time on the leg press and standing calves. Is it possible to do these and slim and tone rather than bulk? Any ideas?