Is walking enough?

Walking is considered cardio.

Consider mixing intervals into your walking-- fast for thirty seconds, then a slow pace for a minute, and repeat

You can absolutely lose weight just walking, 30 minutes a day even.

No matter how slow you may be going you are still lapping everyone on the couch.

Implicit in everyone's goal to "lose weight" is that they want to lose fat without losing muscle. As far as cardio is concerned, walking at a normal pace is the best exercise while on a diet because it's not taxing, burns quite a few calories, and uses little to no glycogen (it uses mostly fat stores). You'll need glycogen to perform resistance training. Resistance training is the only way to guarantee that you preserve most of your muscle while losing weight. If you want to lose as little muscle as possible while losing weight, you should perform the big compound movements like bench press, squats, and deadlifts with a weight that is challenging at 4 to 6 repetitions.

I've used this strategy and lost more than 105 lbs. and 27% body fat in 9 months.

My advice is to walk for an hour a day and strength train 3 to 5 times a week, depending on your ability to recover.

i've done it 60+pounds gone and a lot of inches but in my opinion just like with any other form of cardio you have to get your heart rate up and the sweat flowing for it to be most effective.

if you have time to laugh and giggle at whats being played on the tv on the treadmill you ain't working hard enough

I've hit 40 lbs ...only walking

I think you can do it, as long as you do at least 20 minutes every day of the week.

I'm doing Couch to 5K, so I'm jogging. But I walk on days when I can't jog (like when I'm traveling or when my husband wants to go with me to walk).

Walking, paired with a healthy diet seems to work. I struggle to do both. My friend had a walking challenge at work over the summer. She was challenged to walk 10,000 steps (5 miles) every day over three months. She had the help and support of co-workers and her husband, who likes to workout, and she lost 30 lbs. I tried walking 10000 steps over six weeks and didn't see much for weight loss. Diet seems to be my challenge.

Mine was all walking and watching my calories.

I have done...by dvd...Walk a Mile with Leslie Sansone...and lost 30 pounds and stop for 2 weeks and starting to walk again..you can walk one mile ... two milies....three miles,...four miles or 4 miles..and the more you walk the more you lose. I use 3 pound weight sometimes cause you can add it... hope it helps.

It can be. Yes, it does seem like it is "not enough". I pretty much only cardio on the treadmill most of the time but I do intervals on incline. My pace at peak approaches 4mph and during warm up about 3 mph. After warm up I try to make sure I am @ 3.5 mph or more. The incline really helps increase the exertion rate. I also do weights... As for the little 1 lb weights I have actually heard that they may be more of a risk than a benefit as far as any fitness benefit is concerned. Lifting heavy will yield an increase in lean body mass which will in turn cause a higher rate of metabolism. So I would probably stick with the walking with perhaps an increased pace and try adding some resistance training to the mix... Oh, and I would not worry about bulking up by lifting heavy... It is really hard for a female to bulk due to differences in hormones.

thats all i do is walking and I am down 20 lbs in 6 wks but i am also trying to stay under 1200 calories

...in the beginning, I walked and did swimming...it is how I lost the first 15lbs relatively quickly. I stopped walking and am now going to add it back. I believe it is more of a significant benefit to my weight loss (journey) than I've given it.

Down 15.2 pounds from September 20. Just walking. MFP says only 7 but that's because the weight is from July when I first joined and couldn't make MFP work for me.

I lost my first 30-40 lbs just walking a half hour everyday without exceptions and watching my diet without exceptions.

has anyone walked off a significant amount of weight? like 40 or more pounds? i started walking to get my cardio in and i know it wont tone much besides the 1 pound hand walking weights. but is it enough? bc it doesn't seem to be enough. i did a 10 minute jumping jack exercise but i have just got back on the wagon and was wondering what walking will do. any Davie would be nice.

ADD the JOGGING in your walks start at 1 min walking 1 min jogging and like that as much you like pump that heart rate that helps alot in your lose and inches and of corse watching what you eating is a plus to your journey we all have our days and we fail but is a challege and a journey for life we learn form each failers like me i lose 39 pound so gain 7 but i am like a elevator witch is not good only make ppl lazy hehe well point is yes walk is great for losing weight and control your portions carbs and sugar.
keep it up we can do wearever we put in our minds i will lose those i gain cuz i did it before and i will gonna do it know

Mine was all walking and watching my calories.

Ditto. Once I complete my Stage 2 goal (see profile for details), I'll add resistance training. I'm deliberately doing only walking (albeit 3mph @ 8-10% incline) in the first 2 stages to ensure that it's an activity level that I can maintain for decades. I don't want to rely on an exercise level to lose weight that's so high that I can't guarantee myself that I won't fail to maintain the weight loss. YMMV