10,000 steps

Eagles8080
Eagles8080 Posts: 200 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
how effective is 10,000 to 15,000 steps for weight loss?

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  • Lunawatuna
    Lunawatuna Posts: 24 Member
    I did it for a month and lost .1 kilo a day without changing my eating at all. The more steps you walk over ten k the more you lose. A little, slowly, but it really works!
  • Eagles8080
    Eagles8080 Posts: 200 Member
    Awesome!!!!! I have made it my goal to walk 10k to 15 k per day. I track my steps on my iphone. Great job!
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    edited July 2015
    To see the calorie burns for steps....plug in the activity level for sedentary....and then plug in active. Depending upon your size....it's a couple to a few hundred calories.

    http://www.fitnessforweightloss.com/rate-your-activity-level-based-on-steps-per-day/
  • lauraesh0384
    lauraesh0384 Posts: 463 Member
    I actually have a pedometer and I aim for 15k steps a day and sometimes I'll get closer to 20k. I don't know if it's using my pedometer or the fact that I'm eating at a caloric deficit, but it definitely helps me move more especially on my days off work, and I'm losing weight. I don't enjoy conventional forms of exercise as much. I think the idea of moving more definitely helps with weight loss, though, depending on what your activity level is, such as previously being sedentary. On a typical day at work I'm at about 7-8k. If halfway through the day I haven't reached 4-5k then I know I need to move more.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Depends on what you eat and what other exercise you do, but as a change from a more sedentary lifestyle it can be extremely helpful. Just increasing incidental movement like that can make a big difference in how much you burn during the day without making you hungrier at all.
  • Eagles8080
    Eagles8080 Posts: 200 Member
    Awesome!!!!! I have made it my goal to walk 10k to 15 k per day. I track my steps on my iphone. Great job!
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