pain in my leg from walking.

When I was having pain on the outside of my leg/hip from running, I found that doing this stretch helped a lot (from runnersworld.com) :

"stretch your iliotibial band by crossing your good leg in front of your sore leg and pushing your painful hip out to the side as you push against a wall. You should feel the tissue tighten along the side of your thigh. Hold this stretch for 10 to 15 seconds. Do this stretch two to three times a day."

Also, it would probably behoove you to take a couple of days off from the distance walking and rest whatever muscle/tendon is irritated. If you take the time to rest a sore spot early you can often avoid having it develop into a real overuse injury (which can take a lot more than two or three days to recover from).

Anyway, that's my amateur advice!

You walk a half marathon every day?

How long have you been doing this? And when you say everyday you mean 7 days a week with no rest day? And why?

..........

or walk too much till you end up on it.

please look up "rest days".

You walk a half marathon every day?

And it felt better today when you didn't walk a half marathon?

I think I've found the source of the problem....

...*and* the solution.

More potent pharmaceuticals?

really OP not to be mean but you really did answer your own question. did that not occur to you as you wrote it?

Yep, everytime I experience excruciating pain after overdoing something, my first thought is "I'm going to take some more vitamins."

I have nothing constructive to add but I do object to others with tongue in cheek replies. Sometimes it's difficult to see the obvious!

I've never walked a marathon before so I have no idea how long they are. Also- when I walk 13.5 miles a day I burn a lot of calories- which is nice because I can eat whatever (with in reason) and still lose weight. I have only been doing this since the 4th of may. friday and saturday were my rest days. When I have days where my leg hurts then I only walk 6-7 miles. I see nothing wrong with walking this much. It is low impact, I have the time it takes (4 and a half hours) and I am more active so I don't really see a problem. I will however adjust if I should start taking vitamins. So far all I do now is drink muscle milk after my walks.

So even if it is causing excruciating pain you don't see anything wrong with this?

Okay then. Best of luck there.

I've never walked a marathon before so I have no idea how long they are. Also- when I walk 13.5 miles a day I burn a lot of calories- which is nice because I can eat whatever (with in reason) and still lose weight. I have only been doing this since the 4th of may. friday and saturday were my rest days. When I have days where my leg hurts then I only walk 6-7 miles. I see nothing wrong with walking this much. It is low impact, I have the time it takes (4 and a half hours) and I am more active so I don't really see a problem. I will however adjust if I should start taking vitamins. So far all I do now is drink muscle milk after my walks.

The thing that is wrong with walking this much is the pain you are experiencing. To put it in terms MFPers seem to like "your body is telling you" blah blah blah.

You are simply in the position of making a choice.

1) realize that you started a very short time ago and this was your trial schedule to see if you were up to it and the pain indicates that you may need to increase your walk times and distance more slowly to condition yourself (even if you have all the time in the world and want to eat all the cals earned by the long walks.)

2) continue on the trajectory you are on and risk having the problem exacerbate to the point where you are unable to keep up even a milder schedule of say 2-3 days a week of easier walks.

Now to solve the problems that are in your way of seeing that this is the solution.

1) You have lots of time. There are other things you can do with this time that will help your weight loss goals.
-researching the injury you are feeling
-researching couch to 5k
-researching walking for exercise
-researching critical thinking

2) You want to eat the cals you gain from all this walking
-stretching burns cals log this
-swimming burns cals try this too
-research how adequate fiber and protein and fat intake can help with satiety.

https://www.google.com/

True I only started walking 13.5 miles this week but since the 1st of april I have been walking 6 miles. I increased my distance because there was no weight loss at only walking 6 miles a day.

Your weight loss is dependent on you walking 13.5 miles. It's dependent on your calorie intake.

True I only started walking 13.5 miles this week but since the 1st of april I have been walking 6 miles. I increased my distance because there was no weight loss at only walking 6 miles a day.

A more effective means to weight loss would be to increase the distance from your plate to your mouth. Exercise us for fitness, diet is for weight loss. Trying to out exercise a bad diet leads to futility and injury.

So I walk a lot. roughly 13 miles a day. yesterday on the way back from my walk i developed a pain in the right side of my thigh. here's a picture of where the pain is:
http://s566.photobucket.com/user/artsygirl87/media/DSCF2632.jpg.html
has anyone else had this? any ideas of how to deal with it. Today I only walked 6 miles and it feels a thousand times better than yesterday but still acting up. Its more annoying than painful.

OP...google "training to walk a half marathon" or "training to walk a 10k". Each program has you start out walking 30-40 mins every other day. Each week for 10-12 weeks they have you build up in time and distance. Each will give you rest days and recommend that you cross train and strength train.

Do some research and I think that you will figure out what is causing your pain...over doing it. Even people that have been walking marathons for years don't walk that far for training.