I started on my weight loss journey on 8/17/2013. As of today (10/11/2013) I have lost 47 pounds. I started logging my food and staying under my daily calorie allowance and almost never eating into any of the calories I gained from the exercise. Now for the exercise, I started with walking just a mile at a time and trying to walk 2 times a day and as I got stronger I moved the distance up and the speed at which I was walking. Now I am up to 5 miles at a time with an average walk speed of 3.5 MPH. I have started swimming again and try to swim a mile on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. It usually takes me about an hour. Finally completed a mile the other day in 50 minutes. Also just earned my 25,000 step badge from fitbit on 10/09/2013 by walking 13.74 miles that day. I think people disregard walking as a viable exercise, but it works for me. I bought a Bluetooth heart rate monitor and I try to always keep my heart rate at between 70 and 80% of my max heart rate of 176 BPM, which is getting harder to do.

Like everyone else stated, you need both cardio and weight training/resistance and calorie counting to lose weight/get fit. I've got the calories and the cardio down, and this weekend will be incorporating the resistance training once I get my Hubby to put together the bowflex he ordered for me!!!

I walk - not much, but I take the stairs at work whenever I come and go, and depending on what's on my to do list, I take a 20-30 minute walk at lunchtime. My husband works right across the street, so sometimes when he'll be working late, I'll walk while I wait for him, as well.

I'm incorporating the resistance training to firm up what I've been losing...oh, how I'd somebody love to get rid of these bat wings!!! LOL I have a feeling starting the Bowflex is really going to make a difference...we'll see!

I've been with MFP for a little over a month (started 9/15) and as of today have lost 18.4 pounds.

Beginning in 2002 through 2004 I worked out at the Y with cardio on the stationary bike and treadmill, and lifted weights every other day, but I got where I walked 7-10 miles a day on trails and around town, and I went from a size 24 down to a size 18. I got compliments on my calves by strangers which I thought was weird. Yet my boyfriend still says I have great legs because of all the walking I did. I have regained the weight due to some problems with not maintaining an active workout, but I am like a size 20 and can almost fit into a size 18 if I could accept how tight the jeans are. But I prefer being comfortable in my clothes. So yea one can lose weight by walking, and it looks nice on the leg and butt muscles. I would still add some weight lifting to help strengthen and tone the muscles. Working out that much and that intensely I did not have to change my eating habits, but I tended to eat healthy with lots of vegetables and some meat and low intake of sweets. So I would say that caloric intake needs to be adjusted in a healthy way to benefit the exercise as the calories consumed has to be less than the exercise to lose weight.