Walking or jogging?

Your weight loss is going to be more attributable to your diet.

I cycle about 80 miles per week and lift a few days per week...walk my dog 3 miles or so 3-4 days per week...do a little hiking and swimming on occasion. I have lost weight, maintained weight, and gained weight doing all of that...the difference between the three weight management objectives was not my exercise...it was my consumption.

Exercise in general is very good for you and has the added benefit of increasing your body's calorie requisites which in turn gives you more calories so that you can lose weight without eating like a bird...but really, you should choose exercise that you simply enjoy doing not because it's going to burn XXX calories.

Wrap you head around fitness for the sake of fitness. Diet for weight control; fitness for the sake of fitness.

I lost 3 stone over 3 years purely by running/jogging 3 times a week (totalling between 12-19 miles), without changing any eating habits, and went from a UK size 14 to an 8-10. Obviously I was burning off more than I was eating but this wasn't my focus at the time. Over the last 18 months I have put on 14lb since I stalled on regular exercise but addressing it this time around with less running (just don't have the same motivation!) and more of a calorie deficit through food intake. So it worked for me, but all you're ultimately doing is creating a larger deficit which you can also do by eating less. Hope this helps.

skysiebaby wrote: »

I lost 3 stone over 3 years purely by running/jogging 3 times a week (totalling between 12-19 miles), without changing any eating habits, and went from a UK size 14 to an 8-10. Obviously I was burning off more than I was eating but this wasn't my focus at the time. Over the last 18 months I have put on 14lb since I stalled on regular exercise but addressing it this time around with less running (just don't have the same motivation!) and more of a calorie deficit through food intake. So it worked for me, but all you're ultimately doing is creating a larger deficit which you can also do by eating less. Hope this helps.

Did it take effort to not eat more once you started burning the calories? It did for me.

cwolfman13 wrote: »

XXX calories.

ooh, sexy

DuckReconMajor wrote: »

skysiebaby wrote: »

I lost 3 stone over 3 years purely by running/jogging 3 times a week (totalling between 12-19 miles), without changing any eating habits, and went from a UK size 14 to an 8-10. Obviously I was burning off more than I was eating but this wasn't my focus at the time. Over the last 18 months I have put on 14lb since I stalled on regular exercise but addressing it this time around with less running (just don't have the same motivation!) and more of a calorie deficit through food intake. So it worked for me, but all you're ultimately doing is creating a larger deficit which you can also do by eating less. Hope this helps.

Did it take effort to not eat more once you started burning the calories? It did for me.

Strangely running has always the opposite effect on me, I naturally don't feel like I need to eat more which also obviously helped long term for weight loss/maintenance. Now I've incorporated weight training...completely different story lol.

It'll backfire on you. Short term or at least long term.

The side effect of a good exercise routine is actually water weight gain.

You want dramatic weight loss and don't care that it's muscle mass - then by all means take an extreme deficit and only jog.
That should lose some unneeded muscle mass in upper body.

Reread the posts above - you seem to have the wrong concept of exercise.

Why would you expend all that effort just to burn a few more calories - when it's so much easier to abuse your body by just eating even less.

Lose weight in the kitchen. I can't jog anymore, but that burns more calories per minute and per unit of distance.

Calibandawg wrote: »

I had the opportunity to watch a person on a metabolic cart who was walking at 3.5 mph; when she switched to jogging at the same pace her metabolic rate went down. Jogging is more efficient than fast walking. Problem is, walking at 3.5 mph is really uncomfortable and not realistic. I find that jogging takes less time than walking and gives me a better cardiovascular effect. Walking takes longer and makes my feet sore for how long it takes.

EXTREMELY fast race-walking is better than jogging, but slow jogging is better than moderate walking.

Running has helped with my fitness and helping me look leaner alongside good eating

Calibandawg wrote: »

I had the opportunity to watch a person on a metabolic cart who was walking at 3.5 mph; when she switched to jogging at the same pace her metabolic rate went down. Jogging is more efficient than fast walking. Problem is, walking at 3.5 mph is really uncomfortable and not realistic. I find that jogging takes less time than walking and gives me a better cardiovascular effect. Walking takes longer and makes my feet sore for how long it takes.

Perhaps for you 3.5 is harder - but for vast majority - that actually happens to be the most efficient speed.

Meaning least calorie burn by a tad.

http://www.exrx.net/Aerobic/WalkCalExp.html

Very true on benefits to moving to running though.
Eventually walking just isn't going to cause as good workout, especially as weight is lost, because most people can only walk so fast, and can't compensate for lost weight.

I'm not even sure I CAN walk at 3.5. When I bumped the treadmill up to 3 mph I was walking just about as fast as I could. 3.5 might be running for me. No way that's an energy conserving speed for me!

Wow I don't believe the posts I'm reading here, the amount of disinformation and subjective opinion is staggering. Muscles loss from too much walking Please !!!!

I'm actually headed out the door for a 4 hour walk, the benefits of walking/jogging are far to numerous for me to mention right now, other then I lost close to 95 pounds walking, One of the benefits I will mention is the increase in metabolic rate your body will experience going from a sedentary life style to one that includes at least an hour of walking each day. This increase in metabolic rate will not only increase your body's caloric requirement from the activity but also increase it do to an increase in your basal metabolic rate increase. A person who combines at least an hour of low to medium intensity cardio with a sensible diet will lose more weight and be more successful at maintaining their weight then someone who merely reduces caloric intake to lose weight, then there is away's the effects it will have on your cardio vascular system, Before I started walking my blood pressure was regularly 160/90's with a resting heart rate in the 80's today my Blood pressure is 114/62 with a resting heart rate of 48, the effect on my blood pressure and heart rate alone regardless of te weight loss was enough to justify walking every day..

By the way the first thing I do every morning as I wait for my coffee is 100-150 push-ups then I go for a 3-10 mile walk using a heart rate monitor to maintain a therapeutic heart rate when I get home I do 50 or so crunch's and some stretching.. By the way Muscle atrophy is not nearly as common in weight loss as some people would like you to believe on the other hand a lack of activity or a sedentary life style IS the most common cause of Muscle atrophy..

Anyhow I need to get walking before it gets too hot outside, I'll add to this post when I get back..

I lost a lot of weight reducing portion size and calories within my mfp goals, walking and resistance training, find what you like and it will work for you.

Just got back from a 7.61 mile Walk/Jog.. I violated my cardinal rule and got on the computer this morning instead of drinking my tea on the patio and then heading out for my walk. Consequentially before I knew it I had wasted over an hour and half reading emails and forum posts. Computers and the Internet have got to be one of the leading factors in our nations obesity epidemic.

I was over an hour and a half late heading out for my walk this morning, the sun was already up and it was getting warm. So what should have been a 10 mile trek had to be cut short because it was starting to get hot. The only good news is that getting back so late I finally met the neighbor down the street. Turned out I've actually see her many times on my walks, I just didn't realize she lived in the house at the end of the block. WOW let me tell you about this woman, two words Rocking HOT !! she epitomizes the definition of the term "toned athletic body". I just found out that she jog's as far as I walk, she said she jogged 7.5 miles today. I know she does this a lot because we cross paths several times every time I go out.

Anyhow like I said computers and the Internet have got to be one of the leading factors in our nations obesity epidemic. I got banned from a weight loss forum a while back for a comment related to just this. I was responding to a fitness denialist claims that a caloric deficit was all you needed to lose wight and that running/jogging/walking or biking were unnecessary and even detrimental and that she recommended against including any of these activity's in your weight loss plan. I've learned that more often than not this claim is propagated mainly by fatties who are to lazy to get off their computer..

She finally resorted to the argument that like most people she just doesn't have the time to go on 5 mile walks. I then pointed out that she obviously has enough time to maintain a Facebook page a huge blog and post over 15,000 comments to the forum so it's obviously not an issue with not having the time but rather a lack of skill in time management. Or more likely than not simply being to lazy to get off the computer and move a bit.

The bottom line is weight loss is not simply a journey to an end goal it's a life style change. That's why people who incorporate a maintainable cardio fitness routine into their weight loss program are more successful at not only losing weight but keeping it off. People who rely solely on a caloric deficit diet with no cardio are the least successful and the most likely to regain all their loss's

Just move and eat less and you will lose weight. Wether you walk or jog would depend on your fitness and weight level. If your significantly overweight it might not be best to start with jogging but as your fitness level goes up then you can make the switch.