Any walkers here?

I do an hour(or sometimes more when I feel the urge) walking on the treadmill 4-5 days a week with my strength workout. Trying each time to better myself by going farther or faster. It's been a huge stress reliever along with helping me shed quite a bit if weight. I noticed my legs and thighs dropping fat and shaping up very quickly. That along with working up a sweat and getting rid of retained water helped jump-start things. You're welcome to add me if you like.

Me! An hour at least 4 times a week. I used to run, but I broke my foot and now it's very uncomfortable. Walking has been super helpful for my depression and anxiety. That's actually the biggest benefit I get from it.

Do any of you who walk use a counter?? I have one but it doesnt sync up so I am looking for one that shows the steps and I can down load info on. Any hints??

Don't look at the scale for a while. Instead tape your hips / below your belly button and keep track of it. After you've made progress with that, weigh yourself. Weight isn't everything.

Hi Y'all! I am a walker here doing an hour everyday now for almost two week and scared to look at the scale in case I don't see any numbers go down but my body is getting more toned. I have no problem eating healthier but it takes more motivation to excercise! I weigh at 154 couple weeks ago at 5'8. Want to be 125. I have self image issues and in the past I struggled with bulima. I was very skinny last year but been through some stressful times and turned to food :-( I am new to this website and ready to be healthy :-D

Walked initially and only 3 months ago [broken ankle]. Am running again now. Remember to take measurements of your body too and progress pics. Whilst eating well and walking, I'd discovered there were weeks I'd lose some weight daily [I was a weighing fanatic] and days/weeks with zero scale drops, then BOOM, I'd lose like a lot of weight. Stay the course and congratulations for choosing a healthier path to achieve your ideal body goals.

Do any of you who walk use a counter?? I have one but it doesnt sync up so I am looking for one that shows the steps and I can down load info on. Any hints??

MapMyWalk is an app I use on my cell phone. It tracks your walk/run/hike/biking using the GPS capabilities of your phone. Very easy to use and it syncs to MFP.

Yes... Just started this month thanks to a 10k-a-day challenge at my local gym. I've averaged a little over 14k steps per day this month and am tracking steps with a Garmin vivofit. It's still a little early to tell, but it feels like my weight loss has accelerated slightly since I've started walking. (I was already strength training 3x per week and inconsistently doing cardio.)

Sam

Love walking, and walk about 4 miles every day I find it great for weight loss too, and would attribute it to about 3/4's of a lb of my weight loss every week

I'm 5'7 and walk about two hours every day. Last year I was walking about three on average, or nine miles but now I'm just in walking in the morning and evening to stay away from the heat. I am aiming for 130, but am going to stop at 135 first to see how I like it and then go from there.

I have struggled with an eating disorder myself. Namely EDNOS. It can be tough, but recovery is definitely worth it. The main problem I have with exercise is reminding myself not to do it too excessively. I've pretty much gotten the hang of that. Just listening to my body. This goes for walking, too. If I ever wake up and think I don't think I want to walk today, then I don't walk.

I'm a walker. I do resistance training and cardio, too, but I mostly walk. I don't drive - never learned how to, and really have no desire to. It's not that I'm afraid to, I just... really don't have the drive to learn to (pun intended ). So, I walk. I walk to school, I walk to the store, I walk to my sister's house. If I need to go grocery shopping, I just pay someone gas money to take me.. or I just don't go overboard. I have found that my legs have gotten far more toned than they were before I was sedentary. I had a lot of hanging areas. I'm not sure I'd exactly call it 'loose skin', but it was rather unattractive, regardless. I got them from drastic weight loss (see the ednos mentioned up there). I never intended to lose them. I had actually come to terms with having them. I'd do say, leg raises on the floor and see the areas just hanging, and I'd accepted them. And then one day, I noticed that area was firmer and even toned. This is, largely, thanks to walking as I don't do leg exercises often.

For people that have struggled with EDs and body image, I usually suggest avoiding the scale. It can trigger for many of us. The best thing to measure your successes by, in our case, is health. If you feel healthy, then you're probably going forward, not backward.

Good luck in your goals. I wish you all the best. :flowerforyou:

Do any of you who walk use a counter?? I have one but it doesnt sync up so I am looking for one that shows the steps and I can down load info on. Any hints??

Not often. Occasionally, I use my 3DS as it has a pedometer built in. I find that most of the apps I've tried get the count wrong (many of them will even count when you're in a car or on a bus). But seeing how many steps you've taken can be motivating. The 3DS only counts when I'm walking, and seeing I've taken 'so and so' steps sometimes motivates me.

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I walk my dog (sometimes, this turns into a run because we live in a rural area and when he sees a deer or rabbits, he takes off after them. Heh;) while playing Zombies, run. The two together keep me motivated (the dog more than Zombies, run, tbh. All he has to do is look at me with those big brown eyes and I'm like "okay, okay, let me get your harness!" LOL!) I haven't lost a lot of weight - about 10-14 pounds in about three months - but I've started building some nice muscle in my legs and my pants are a lot looser now.

I walk for thirty minutes three days a week. Also, days I can't walk outside I use Leslie Sansone's walk away the pounds dvd. Keep up the good work!