Anyone lost weight only by walking?

Walked before breakfast and after dinner, when I was freight weight heavy (early 2012 in LA before November when I'd finally taken the advise of distant relatives/friends/peers to join myfitnesspal), duration-focused (4 hours in the AM, 4 hours in the PM), along a planned route which included:

* Please know, that the duration was long initially, due to the fact, that I would have to stop our walk, to take a break to catch my breath, eat some of my mixed nuts and dried fruits snack and hydrate, after every 5 steps. Later, once I didn't need to pause as often, we both enjoyed the time out lol It became therapeutic.

• Long and flat
• Steep hills primarily for cyclists with pretty serious incline %s
• Different stairs within our CBD from Old Town to our Commercial Office Buildings row

The duration was shocking then and even now, however at the time, with members of the community closely watching the progress with multiple weigh-ins (twice a day) with a stand-in audience of one or 2 other people plus the high stress level ("work and life"), the workout served its purpose - a relief, space to breath. Working out with my sister @777Gemma888 day in, day out, irrespective of the climes and holidays or unavoidable events, we both banked our time. Some members of our neighbourhood whose expertise were relevant ("medical specialists") also kept a close watch, running parts of our distance in the AM and the PM and would even stop traffic, for us to cross, for I couldn't make it across within the allocated duration for normal crossings.

I dropped weight and evaded issues I'd assumed I'd need to deal with. Well before mid 2013, you wouldn't even think that I was near 400 lbs around mid-November, the previous year. My circumstances at the time however, catapulted the result. Sometime between early to mid 2013, we'd switched to road-running plus strength training.

It's not the walking that makes people lose weight, it's the calorie deficit.

Walking like all other exercise is good for health and can help you maintain the deficit.

You can lose weight without doing any exercise at all.

I walk every day during my lunch break for an hour in addition to my regular workout before or after work. However even with exercising twice a day, I never lost weight until I started logging all my food regularly here.

I did 90% walking my first year, lost a bit over 100lbs but that was in a pretty severe calorie deficit. You don't have to exercise at all to lose weight, but it helps to keep the calories up so you aren't starving all the time. If you've decided that in order to create your calorie deficit you're going to use walking, then go for it. Too many people think they have to 'lift heavy' or do hours of cardio on a boring machine in order to lose weight. All you have to do is create a calorie deficit. How you do that is up to you.