mother in law says walking does not burn calories

Tricia82
Tricia82 Posts: 75
edited September 23 in Fitness and Exercise
So this weekend I went to the in laws, and my mother in law said that her representative that is helping them lose weight with a program called Ideal Protein said that walking barely burns any calories! She has to be wrong right? I walk on my Treadclimber and for the amount that I sweat I have to burning some major calories!
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  • aippolito1
    aippolito1 Posts: 4,894 Member
    She obviously misunderstood. Even walking at a leisurely pace for 30 minutes, you could burn 150 calories. Walking briskly, you could burn closer to 250 calories. Obviously jogging or running burns more because your heart rate is much more elevated and your body is working harder, but walking burns calories.
  • Elise1395
    Elise1395 Posts: 17 Member
    Yeah, she's definitely wrong...
  • Dom80
    Dom80 Posts: 146 Member
    First of all anything you do from breathing to walking burns calories and most fitness professionals say walking is one of the best exercises to do.
  • amycrims
    amycrims Posts: 94
    breathing burns calories. so walking yes, absolutely burns calories.
  • lab_goddess
    lab_goddess Posts: 170 Member
    walking is good, and does burn calories, but you have to do it long enough to get your heart rate up (aerobic)... It's also good if you're just starting out. Sure, there are lots of ways to burn calories, but you have to work into them and walking will get you on that path!
  • lordofultima
    lordofultima Posts: 293
    walking and running the same distance burns a similar amount of calories, just takes twice as long! Walking is a great way to say "F it, I need to burn these calories but I don't feel like being exhausted!"
  • sbwood888
    sbwood888 Posts: 953 Member
    She's wrong. Just keep on walking and let her think whatever she wants................
  • WalkingGirl1985
    WalkingGirl1985 Posts: 2,046 Member
    If that was the case, I wouldn't have lost 50 pounds. Majority of my exercise & weight loss came from walking. :smile:
  • ZHawk1123
    ZHawk1123 Posts: 215
    Your mother in law is wrong.
  • TracieJ65
    TracieJ65 Posts: 645 Member
    TaKe a look at m weightless ticker and tell me walking doesn't help you lose weight! Heck for that matter do a google on walking and see what it says! For the first three months of my journey walking is ALL that I did. I still walk now I just have the stamina to do other things too.
  • HotSouthernMess
    HotSouthernMess Posts: 474 Member
    everything you do burns calories in one way or another. walking gets your heart going which will burn calories...
  • PLUMSGRL
    PLUMSGRL Posts: 1,134 Member
    Yes, it burns cals, and if done for 20 mins or more~ burns FAT!:noway:
    I've been doing the walk away the pounds dvds since I started and well, just check out the ticker!:wink:
  • akaufm02
    akaufm02 Posts: 3
    OMG! She couldn't be more wrong! I walk on the treadmill at 4 mph every day and burn a lot of calories! At one point I had lost 40 pounds! I am actually up to the point where I am walking and running on it now. Don't let anyone discourage u keep doing what u r doing and prove them wrong!!! U will have the last laugh!!! :o)
  • kappyblu
    kappyblu Posts: 654 Member
    Tell your mother in law that she has been misinformed a great deal. Walking does indeed burn calories. For my 30 minute brisk walks (DVDs by Leslie Sansone) I burn 425 calories. Of course, I am heavier than 150 pounds which is what all those formulas are made for. I have been doing this for months now and I feel stronger than ever. My legs feel muscular and I have more energy. Walking gets the heart rate up, especially brisk walking. It's like stoking a fire. The heart has to work harder to get oxygen to all parts of the body. That takes fuel. Fuel=calories. You keep up that walking my dear!!

    Btw, I am among those that attribute their weight loss to MFP and walking!! Walking is the only exercise I do besides stretching at this point in my journey.
  • downtome
    downtome Posts: 529 Member
    Hmmmm, the other night I walked for 1/2 an hour at a brisk pace and let me say, the next day I was so sore I couldn't believe it was just from walking! I felt like I had been run over by a mack truck so definately wrong! A lot of very over weight people can only start out with walking, gee, I wonder how they have lost weight. Mother-in-laws!? Pleaseeeeeeeeee They think they know everything.....LOL I know mne does!
  • wpij25
    wpij25 Posts: 161
    Please don't listen to her...it does, wear a HRM and prove to yourself that it does.

    Keep Up The Good Work!! You Are Doing Fab!! :happy:
  • bizybeemom
    bizybeemom Posts: 84 Member
    Perhaps her trainer was talking about walking around the house, doing activities of daily living. I do bone density testing and when we ask patients about exercise, many of the older patients count what they do everyday as exercise. They don't understand that you have to do above the normal for it to benefit you.
  • Goal_Seeker_1988
    Goal_Seeker_1988 Posts: 1,619 Member
    Yea, um, that's how I started off with losin my weight was from walkin.
  • MzBug
    MzBug Posts: 2,173 Member
    Sounds like the MIL is getting taken for a ride. The person helping them is SELLING them something. If this "Ideal Protein" stuff actually works and they lose weight, that rep no longer has an income from them. If it were my MIL I would be Googling the heck out of that product. Could be made in cousin Mel's garage for all they know.
  • littlelioness
    littlelioness Posts: 57
    Typing this burned calories :D Umm yeah walking burns calories! I lost a lot of weight just from walking because I had no car!
  • Mads1997
    Mads1997 Posts: 1,494 Member
    MIL's............................ just smile sweetly and agree with her LOL
  • ❤B☩❤
    ❤B☩❤ Posts: 634
    Well, I suggest you invite her to join MFP and by all of our calorie burns, we can all prove to her that YES! You can burn calories by walking!

    Also, many years ago, I would walk 5 miles in the morning before work, and 5 miles after work EVERY DAY and I went from 167 pounds to 144 pounds and I went from a size 18 to a size 8. Then I got pregnant.......dun, dun, dunnnnnnnnnn! :bigsmile:
  • rebeccaoneillcarter
    rebeccaoneillcarter Posts: 51
    walking and running the same distance burns a similar amount of calories, just takes twice as long! Walking is a great way to say "F it, I need to burn these calories but I don't feel like being exhausted!"

    I agree with this comment!
  • skinnygirlfreed
    skinnygirlfreed Posts: 53
    Ha! My doctor told me recently that he recommended walking over running because it burns more FAT(score!). Apparently running burns through your glycogen before dipping into the fat - whereas walking (at target heart rate - 65%) will be burning fat!

    I walk & run, and BOTH burn calories. Like someone said earlier - it just takes longer to burn calories walking.......
    Get that heart rate up - and you're golden! :)
  • jadee76
    jadee76 Posts: 29
    Walking is great, but a skinny friend of mine told me that all the health mags say that you don't burn as many calories. I looked it up and doing the same amount of time on the elliptical, I can burn double the calories. I love to walk, but at the gym I prefer the higher calorie burn.
  • careygrp
    careygrp Posts: 7 Member
    Have her wear a pedometer I use bodybugg I burned over2000 calories walking all day at the bob hope
  • careygrp
    careygrp Posts: 7 Member
    Have her wear a pedometer I use bodybugg I burned over2000 calories walking all day at the bob hope
  • JayneWilson1963
    JayneWilson1963 Posts: 543 Member
    I have lost 61 pounds in less than 6 months. Walking is the on exercise I do, besides house cleaning. It has certainly worked for me. Good luck on your weight loss journey.
  • MzMolly
    MzMolly Posts: 169 Member
    Walking is AMAZING exercise! It has helped me loose 96 pounds! I can not wait for Spring to get here so I can get out and start walking agian. Your MIL was miss informed.
  • JeninBelgium
    JeninBelgium Posts: 804 Member
    oh Mother-in -Laws - why do they love to belittle us, correct us and put us down?
    seriously once you lose the weight and she asks you how you did it- just say- oh that - I walked- but it's not something for you -fterall it doesn't burn that many calories
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