Walking to lose weight?
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I walked 3 miles a day every day for the month of January for a challenge. I felt a very small difference in my clothes but nothing significant. I wasn’t counting calories. I didn’t gain weight so I guess that was a plus.1
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don't knock walking...walking is a very good starter exercise if you are new to exercise and you can challenge yourself every day to walk farther and faster and get your stamina up. there will come a time it is no longer challenging and you can move into something a bit more intense and keep going from there..... also walking at least 30 mins 5 times per week is recommended by the Diabetes Association.7
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10k steps would do it. But very time consuming. Once you build endurance try to run. Walking burns more fat than running. And it's best to do it first thing mornings on an empty stomach.7
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I can walk, but I can't run and I can't descend stairs due to a permanent knee injury and moderate arthritis in both knees. My right right knee only straightens to about 165 degrees. However, I do have full bending range and very little pain. So walking is my main form of cardio exercise. I can go up stairs just fine, but going down more than 8-10 individual stairs is perilous as I have to go down sideways. I also can't run.
Don't say walking it isn't good exercise! As I continue to lose weight, I hope to find other suitable exercises that can do such as swimming, elliptical, or biking (real or stationary).
I haven't tried any lower body strength training yet. I know squats are out. Right now, I can barely get off the ground without pulling myself up and I can't kneel at all--that is VERY painful. I'm hoping to get with a trainer or PT soon to see what all I can do, but for now it's walking.4 -
I like using a treadmill. I can use the incline feature and I can use it regardless of the weather.
I do at least 10,000 steps per day.
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What I have accomplished in the past 12 months of “just” walking and keeping to my calories.
1. Lost 55 lbs (10 more to go)
2. Off reflux meds
3. Off all meds for type 2 (last A1C check was 5.0)
4. Resting heart rate went from 85 to 60 bpm
5. Improved mood
6. Less stress and anxiety
7. I can do a 4 mph pace for 60 min with hills.12 -
dukeingram wrote: »10k steps would do it. But very time consuming. Once you build endurance try to run. Walking burns more fat than running. And it's best to do it first thing mornings on an empty stomach.
Maybe acutely, but not really over a 24hr period.
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longkathleenann9291 wrote: »What I have accomplished in the past 12 months of “just” walking and keeping to my calories.
1. Lost 55 lbs (10 more to go)
2. Off reflux meds
3. Off all meds for type 2 (last A1C check was 5.0)
4. Resting heart rate went from 85 to 60 bpm
5. Improved mood
6. Less stress and anxiety
7. I can do a 4 mph pace for 60 min with hills.
That is awesome!1 -
Eat less, move more. Walking definitely falls under the category of moving more, unless you replace running with walking. It takes effort moving your body, even slowly. Any extra movement a person does above what they normally do is helpful and beneficial. However, anybody telling you that walking will make the weight just fall off is not correct (had one doctor tell me this). Diet first, exercise second by a factor of 10 of how effective it is at weight loss.1
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longkathleenann9291 wrote: »What I have accomplished in the past 12 months of “just” walking and keeping to my calories.
1. Lost 55 lbs (10 more to go)
2. Off reflux meds
3. Off all meds for type 2 (last A1C check was 5.0)
4. Resting heart rate went from 85 to 60 bpm
5. Improved mood
6. Less stress and anxiety
7. I can do a 4 mph pace for 60 min with hills.
Brilliant
I'm walking slowly about 5500 steps a day for medical reasons and I was wondering if I'd ever be able to 'exercise'. I already am 
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AwesomeOpossum74 wrote: »Burn more calories than you eat to lose weight. My 20 minute *brisk* walk/jog burned most of my 320 breakfast calories. I get to "start over" my calorie allotment for the day.
This is pretty hard to believe that a person could burn 320 calories by walking for 20 min. I don't think that I burn that much RUNNING for 20 minutes!5 -
AwesomeOpossum74 wrote: »Burn more calories than you eat to lose weight. My 20 minute *brisk* walk/jog burned most of my 320 breakfast calories. I get to "start over" my calorie allotment for the day.
This is pretty hard to believe that a person could burn 320 calories by walking for 20 min. I don't think that I burn that much RUNNING for 20 minutes!
Agree, I'd be curious to know pp's stats, that's getting them this kind of burn from walking.0 -
AwesomeOpossum74 wrote: »Burn more calories than you eat to lose weight. My 20 minute *brisk* walk/jog burned most of my 320 breakfast calories. I get to "start over" my calorie allotment for the day.
This is pretty hard to believe that a person could burn 320 calories by walking for 20 min. I don't think that I burn that much RUNNING for 20 minutes!
Agree, I'd be curious to know pp's stats, that's getting them this kind of burn from walking.
Most likely a case of someone misinterpreting their fitness tracker's gross calorie burn as net.0 -
longkathleenann9291 wrote: »What I have accomplished in the past 12 months of “just” walking and keeping to my calories.
1. Lost 55 lbs (10 more to go)
2. Off reflux meds
3. Off all meds for type 2 (last A1C check was 5.0)
4. Resting heart rate went from 85 to 60 bpm
5. Improved mood
6. Less stress and anxiety
7. I can do a 4 mph pace for 60 min with hills.
Wow ! Wish I could do #7 ! Am still feeling breathy on my route and I do it twice a day and over the last 3 months !
You are giving me something to aim for !1 -
weighmeless wrote: »I lost 23 lbs walking in about 3.5 months. I started with 5000 steps and went up to 15000-20000 in less than a month clocking in anywhere between 4-6 miles a day .But I did mindful eating. My calorie goal for day was 1200 (age/weight/activity level - everything matters). But I was lot less hungry after I started to walk on daily and always craved for healthy food. So even after eating tummy full, I still would have about 300-500 calories left. I know you need to have minimum amount of calories. But I couldn't get in more . That was my limit. I was full ! My fitness pal helped me show how much less food I could survive on and how much extra I was eating. I never starved. That's the point.
Carbs / fatty / sugar would make me want to throw up. Not that I didn't eat them at all. What and how I ate was what mattered. my sugar craving was satisfied by eating just 1 single dates. Carbs craving by a spoon or 2 of rice. I would feel satisfied and I didn't have to eat more. But I would gorge in healthy stuff. Just couldn't get enough.
So walking alone wouldn't help. A planned healthy diet combined with calorie burning definitely works wonders.
How did you find out your daily calories to eat per day??0 -
When you sign up your put in your age, weight and height, select your activity level before exercise and it gives you a calorie goal.
You can also do this by selecting "goals" in the menu0 -
KrissFlavored wrote: »When you sign up your put in your age, weight and height, select your activity level before exercise and it gives you a calorie goal.
You can also do this by selecting "goals" in the menu
OK thank you😊0 -
I find walking really helps me lose weight. I walk at a brisk pace around a two mile loop. That coupled with watching what I eat works. I don't have to run..thank goodness.1
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