Will just walking help me lose weight

Would 30 minutes of brisk walking most days a week be sufficient? How fast would I see results?

It's always better to be moving than not moving, of course, just understand that 30 minutes of walking will burn very few calories.

I started my exercise "life" by walking. I started by doing 30 minutes each and every day, but gradually increased it until I was walking 2 hours a day non-stop, and by that point I felt I NEEDED to do something else in addition to walking... specially as the cold wet nights of winter were coming.
I am naturally a shy person, and the thought of joining a gym was terrifying to me (especially as I was still very overweight) but one day I was walking past a gym and I walked in and asked to see around it... I did the same for each of the gyms along all my walking routes. But seeing some of the people in 2 of the 3 gyms were like me (very overweight) and friendly, I decided to take a trial membership out at one, just to get me through the winter... I would've kept going too, if I hadnt had a fall and torn a ligament while walking on a pebble beach! So I cancelled the gym, and started walking slowly again as soon as my physio allowed it.
This time last year I joined my current gym, and I started a couple of classes, swimming and lifting weights (my upper body is now starting to shape up a little now too), and I walk to and from the gym, and walk miles every weekend, and I still enjoy my walking

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Yes, walking can help with weight loss. It burns calories, and improves mood. It can also help maintain muscle while you lose fat.

But it is important to remember that it is a calorie deficit that causes fat loss. The extra calories burned from exercise can make keeping a deficit easier, but the deficit is still the important part.

You should begin to feel a difference soon after you start walking regularly. But, weight loss is different. How soon and how much of a difference you see can depend on many things.

How sedentary were you before you started walking? Going from very sedentary to active can cause water weight gain at first, and perhaps even some increase in muscle. Water and muscle contribute to weight, so even though you may be losing fat, you might not see it as soon on the scale.

How intensely are you walking? A fast pace burns more calories than a slow pace. Hills burn more than level. Pumping your arms burns more than letting them swing naturally.

30 min a day, 3 days a week is the recommendation for health. This is the minimum amount with data to support increased heart and vascular health. But more is good. And more burns more calories.

Walking is a great way to lose weight! In fact, I attribute a lot of my weight loss to the Leslie Sansone's Walk Away the Pounds: 5 mile walk dvd. You can view it on youtube. It's a fast, easy and effective workout - a big help when you want to walk but can't because of weather, nighttime or you're traveling. I just play the youtube video on my laptop or nook.

Walking uphill will tone your core somewhat. But it needs to be a pretty steep incline. I live in the Sierra, my walks include a lot of steep hills, I really feel it in my core. It also helps to contract your core, as you hike those hills.

Walking is great exercise!
Tuck in your tailbone, engage your abdominal muscles and get your arms moving. Cross your arms to the opposite side with step to further engage and strengthen your core. If you are on a path with no one around to see you try walking with your feet a little wider to use different muscles. Walking backwards also changes up the muscle but I feel to silly to actually do it outdoors. :blushing:

walking is a great way to start exercising when you havent been, its low impact on the body and great for you. it will help shed lbs, but everyones body is different and reacts different so as for the asking how long it will take to see results- that just depends on your body...

as for toning, i think you'll need to do more than just walk... unless leg toning is the only area you're looking for. if you have an iphone or a smartphone in general, there are great apps out there that can help you tone up, lose weight or just get you moving. i personally have been doing these daily 5 min apps, they are great!! each one takes 5 minutes and it focuses on a specific body part- and its free, and you have it with you at all times. between my fitbit and my phone, who needs a gym?

When I walk, my shortest route is 2.2km (1.36 miles) and burn 122 calories [This distance takes about 20 minutes for me]
When I walk the same route twice (4.4km or 2.73 miles) I burn 249 calories.. [.. 40-50 minutes]

I wear a heart rate monitor around my chest which computes to my watch how many calories I burn exactly and to make sure I am in a healthy zone with my heart rate.

Some days I do a large walk around 6km's long and sometimes 4km's.. Depends how I'm feeling on the day.
I've been doing this for as many days during the week as I can manage (usually anywhere from 5-7 days per week) for 4 weeks and have lost 1.9kg so far. So yes.. It works! I should add I also eat 1200 calories a day and I eat back exercise calories if I need to.. Most days this can be half of the calories I have burnt and sometimes most of them! Just depends how hungry I am

Like you, I don't have much to lose, only a few more kg's until I shed some of my pregnancy weight and then I will work on maintainence and toning more

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Yes it will help you lose weight!

I have severe anxiety as well so I don't go outside much so I bought my self a mini exercise bike. I can just watch a tv program and pedal through it so it's not so bad :P

(wasn't so expensive either)