has anyone successfully lost weight through walking?

yes... a friend of mine lost 70kg from walking and food alone. it took her a long time, but she did it. and she's a size 10-12 now after being a size 26.

she walks alot!!! like 2-3 hours a day, and religeously.

just wanna say that your diet makes you lose weight.
walking is good but wont tone you up like other exercises
so if all you want or can do is walk just keep your diet in top shape and you'll see the scale drop.

Yes! I changed my eating habits a few years ago and started walking way way more and lost 60lbs in a few months. I didn`t count calories, no weight watchers, I ate sensibly when I was hungry and tried to walk at least once a day. And not long walk, sometimes it was 15 minutes to the store and back.

Absolutely! (I gained it all back of course from NOT walking) But, I walked all spring all spring/summer one year ..8 months. and I lost 60lb...Prolly a 45min walk at a brisk pace 5x's a week. I worked up to that though. I started slow. I walked through my sub. its got good terrain...cpl hills. I ate right too. It CAN be done!

I walk 2.6 miles almost every other day. My hrm tells me I burn between 650-725 calories each time I walk depending on how fast and how long it takes me. You do need to do some other work outs to tone up...but yes you can lose weight from just walking.

I say do what you love to do because it is easier to stick with it.
I started out walking. Just walked and increased my speed and distance. That along with healthy eating will work. I got an app for my i-touch called lolo beatburn and started to use it when I walked. It a great workout. I sprained my ankle 7 weeks ago and now I use the app. on a stationary bike to workout since I have to do low impact for now but in another month or so I will be back walking again and hope to work up to a walk/jog like I did before my injury. Good luck.

Definitely works...I walk for miles, and of course, need to watch food. Just that and some light strength exercises while watching TV. :P

Walking is a great workout!! I used to walk everywhere. It was my only means of transportation. It kept me in shape (especially my bum) and Its helping me lose weight now. Try walking in areas with a lot of hills to make it more challenging and keep a steady pace.

I personally haaaate walking. I hate long distance. Period. I dont like nature walks and I dont like the track. In highschool I wanted to sprint and be done with it. That being said, my mom is an extreme walker. I mean super extreme. I have to jog/run if i want to keep up with her walk pace. So....if you are actively walking and engaging all your muscles (core and arms and not just your legs) and you do atleast a mile a day, you can definately lose the weight. I still hit the track and make myself do a mile of walk/jog on my days that i dont do heavy cardio and if i m in the mood i add a couple sets of bleachers (i cant jog em, but walking em still burns). The biggest key is do something you love so you dont set yourself up for failur. I hate walking so I dont depend on walking as my key form of exercise. You love walking so you should walk : ) Listen to some good music to keep the pace up, if you get lost in the music you wont even realize how fast and how much more calories you are burning.

Hi everyone.

I realise that walking is the exercise i love, since i got the leslie sansone dvd, i could do 10 miles at once. however i am always skeptical that i might not lose enough weight since its not high impact aerobics or like running on a treadmill. My hrm is arriving soon, but for now i do not know how much calories i burn walking.

I have tried severally to switch to other intense workouts like turbo fire or insanity or jillian micheals. however most of the time i end up doing them for five ten minutes and stopping either cos am bored or its too hard.

So i have decided to stick to something i love and can do for long, which is the walking. Has anyone successfully lost weight from walking? how much walks were you doing each day?
thank you

My mom lost all of her weight by walking. She weighed over 300 pounds after I was born up until I was like 6 years old. At that time she started walking about 6 miles a day (3 miles one way to the end of a road near our house and then back). She's 5'11" tall and got down to around 160 pounds which is what she has been able to maintain ever since then. She never did anything else, and even today she has a treadmill in her house for when she can't go outside to walk.

I have some good friends from Nutrisystem that lost their weight that way. It took awhile, but if you have patience it's doable.

I lost 12kgs this time last year just by walking 4-5 times a week for about an hour, and watching what I ate. Then I stopped and put 7 back on. This time around, I've included walking with other exercises (elliptical, interval running) because walking bored me after a few months and I don't want to get bored!!

Hell yeah you can! I would just say try to walk as fast as you can or if you have a treadmill, walk at an incline just so you get your heart rate up higher to burn more calories. At one point when I was a teenager, all I did were a few shape magazine strength workouts in my room and I walked 2 miles a day and I lost about 30 lbs in about 6 months.

(raises hand) Walking is almost all I do. When I started, I was doing about 2.5 miles per hour. Now I'm up to 3.25 mph most times, sometimes faster. For me, walking has the added benefit of being a huge stress reliever, so I'm also less likely to binge.

You should do what you love, because that's what you'll stick with.

Oh yes. Its a well known fact that if the average person power walks for 45 minutes a time, 4 times a week, he/she will lose approximately 8kg/18lb in a year without changing his/her diet in any way. I have been walking for a minimum of 30 minutes a day for about three years now and I have lost 45 lbs to date. I love walking and I follow Nina Barough's Walking for Fitness plan for weight loss, her book also offers comprehensive advice for her low impact training programmes for walkers of all levels, from beginners, to intermediate, to advanced, to short distance, to half marathon and finally full marathons.