Can I actually lose weight walking?

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  • Grnhouse
    Grnhouse Posts: 254 Member
    Walking is great. It works. mOnitor your eating and keep doing it. As we age, losing weight is more challenging.
  • yoherbs421
    yoherbs421 Posts: 160 Member
    Tell her her colon will fill right back up once she starts eating real food again.

    I second the exercises keep at it
  • beanz744
    beanz744 Posts: 221 Member
    edited July 2017
    OP, did u ever found out ur maintenance caloric intake number? I did the calculation from a website n it says your maintenance number is at 1765
    https://tdeecalculator.net/result.php?s=imperial&age=42&g=female&lbs=193&in=61&act=1.2&bf=&f=1

    U r eating at 1650 n doing walking as exercise n losing .5lb a week ( an average of -250 cal a day) so it seems to be right. u can confirm the 1765 number by using diff tdee calculators n if it confirms then u either eat less n lose more or accept the current progress.

    Good luck!


    PS walking as an effective weight loss tool in ur BMI Category is PERFECTLY fine but u have to do it daily n for an hour at a time to achieve the progress that u like.
  • BigMo2017
    BigMo2017 Posts: 30 Member
    The short answer is yes. I've been on MFP for 135 days now and walking has been my main form of exercise to back up my calorie monitoring. I usually walk 3 - 5 km per day (when I can) just by getting out of my workplace during my lunch break. I don't eat back the calories I burn and use the runtastic app to log my walks.

    SW = 231 lbs
    CW = 173 lbs
    TW = 168 lbs
  • DevilsFan1
    DevilsFan1 Posts: 342 Member
    edited July 2017
    peppypea wrote: »
    I get a minimum of 10k steps daily- working hard, not strolling. Weekdays I am averaging 16k.

    I am keeping my calories at 1650 most of the time, though I let myself use my "extra" calories some times when I make at least 15k.

    This is so slow going- am I ever going to really see definable results? I just wanna have a cute figure. (Healthier lifestyle is a side-benefit, don't hate.)

    Don't eat back your calories. You are almost certainly overestimating calorie burn from walking. A decent rule of thumb for calories burned during walking is

    (0.3)*(body weight in pounds)*(miles walked).

    I weigh 188 pounds. If I walked 5.7 miles (about 10,000 steps for me), that works out to 320 calories.

    Walking doesn't burn many calories at all. It's great exercise and it's a great stress reliever, but if you're counting on walking to get skinny you had better be walking at least 10 miles a day.

    * Edit to fix my bad math.
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    DevilsFan1 wrote: »
    peppypea wrote: »
    I get a minimum of 10k steps daily- working hard, not strolling. Weekdays I am averaging 16k.

    I am keeping my calories at 1650 most of the time, though I let myself use my "extra" calories some times when I make at least 15k.

    This is so slow going- am I ever going to really see definable results? I just wanna have a cute figure. (Healthier lifestyle is a side-benefit, don't hate.)

    Don't eat back your calories. You are almost certainly overestimating calorie burn from walking. A decent rule of thumb for calories burned during walking is

    (0.3)*(body weight in pounds)*(miles walked).

    I weigh 188 pounds. If I walked 3.3 miles (about 10,000 steps for me), that works out to 186 calories. That's about one small scoop of vanilla ice cream.

    Walking doesn't burn many calories at all. It's great exercise and it's a great stress reliever, but if you're counting on walking to get skinny you had better be walking at least 10 miles a day.

    mfp is designed to eat back your calories which is why most eat back 25-50% so if they do overestimate exercise then that should cover it. since MFP has your deficit built in without exercise,any additional exercise will make that deficit bigger,which for some may not be a good thing especially not eating them back
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