how much has walking helped you lose weight
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I walked in January 2014 and throughout that year, a lot. Not only is it great for your body but a walk also works amazing wonders for the mind. Walking is therapeutic. Now I still walk a lot even though running is my preference, but I park at a distance and I walk great lengths into the store, won't catch me driving around for the closest parking spot. I walk all day throughout my house and into my backyard. Walking definitely helped me to lose weight and tone up. Stick with it! Make a goal and stick to it!
I never understood the people who would drive around for 10 minutes until a parking spot near the store opened up instead of walking the two minutes from the back of the lot. My Dad was always bad for this. Drove me nuts.6 -
stevehenderson776 wrote: »I walked in January 2014 and throughout that year, a lot. Not only is it great for your body but a walk also works amazing wonders for the mind. Walking is therapeutic. Now I still walk a lot even though running is my preference, but I park at a distance and I walk great lengths into the store, won't catch me driving around for the closest parking spot. I walk all day throughout my house and into my backyard. Walking definitely helped me to lose weight and tone up. Stick with it! Make a goal and stick to it!
I never understood the people who would drive around for 10 minutes until a parking spot near the store opened up instead of walking the two minutes from the back of the lot. My Dad was always bad for this. Drove me nuts.
SAME!
Also, at my work you can have 300 deducted annually if you want to park in the lot. I save money and park for free on streets. Only takes 10 minutes to walk, gets me an extra mile a day and I save money!
I also prefer to stand when I am waiting at offices or for things, instead of sitting.3 -
I have found walking to be a nice balance from some of the other more strenuous exercise activities I do.
Most importantly it helps to clear the mind while I catch up on podcasts.2 -
Walking is my primary exercise because I have bad knees and other types of exercise hurts them. If I don't walk losing weight would be difficult since I have to eat at least 1200 calories per day and without exercise I would only lose a couple of pounds per month. I use the indoor walk (for the treadmill) on my Apple watch and then only count the active calories when I enter exercise in MFP. I only eat them back some of the time depending on if I feel hungry or not.1
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I absolutely love walking. If anything, it's just lovely to get lots of fresh air and vitamin D, I really find it great for the mind. And getting those steps in is never wrong of course.
That said, I do think 50 mins out and back to your work quite long, but if you enjoy it, why not. If it is out of obsession with burning calories, maybe you should rethink, 4 gym sessions a week seems quite fine as it is.3 -
I have just started walking as exercise. I think it's something I would like to embrace long term, very easy to start, you can do it any time or anywhere and it does not require any special equipment, if you are just walking in parks or in you neighbourhood. I really enjoy it and I'm hoping will will help with weight loss as well.3
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Like most, towards the end of the first uk lockdown. I had spent most of it in the house and muscles almost fading away. I started walking and reducing my calorie intake. When I started I was struggling at 2 miles of walking. Several months later I've been known to do a few 10-12 mile walks at a very brisk pace for most of it including a few decent hills. I always aim for a minimum of 5 mile. Although with only a rough CICO method I can account it to my 19kg weight loss. I'd say the added benefits is it let's you have a bit of leeway for error on food tracking.5
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I rekindled my love of walking during pandemic. I go 3,4 or sometimes 6 miles. If I didn’t have my dog and could swing my arms more my heart rate would go up. I wear a Fitbit and trrrryyyy to stay around 119 bpm. But like others have said it’s the mental benefit. Sometimes I listen to podcasts, or music. Sometimes i just listen to the sounds of nature. Idoother things like take exercise classes and play tennis. But walking is so easy and so fufilling. Plus you know your burning some calories3
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There's a lot of success stories of people losing weight just by walking daily. I actually burned about 200 calories with speed walking for 40 minutes. Walking is what was meant for us to do. We were never designed to sit down all day with a sedentary lifestyle.5
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I lost 77 lbs in 11 months - 50 in the first 3 due to walking and better diet. I started with 4,000 steps and added 1,000 every week until I hit 10,000. 10,000 is my base goal for the day. I do anywhere from 10,000 to 22,000 a day. About 10 minutes per 1,000 steps and that's about an hour and 40 minutes of walking or more a day. I do an hour in the morning, 45ish minutes at lunch and then I'll do more after work, if necessary or I want to. I burn anywhere between 500 and 1,200 calories just walking in a day. Walking is so underrated, in my opinion. Its not hard on the joints, it's enjoyable, especially around nice scenery, and it's great for your physical and mental health. My mental health has gotten so much better. One thing is I never ever break my rules: I go out rain or shine. The only time I don't is lightening, blizzard, or below 20°F. If those happen, I walk in place at home. And it comes first. I'm no longer working OT, if I don't put my steps in. The dishes can wait. Who cares about work or dishes, if I'm dead? Following those rules is the only thing that's helped me keep it off.7
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Walking has helped me a ton! Every time I get to my calorie goal, I walk away from the table. That is the key to weight loss.2
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I walked when I exhausted myself during an intense workout.
I’ve added walks after my workouts regularly now and it helps significantly.1 -
Not me, but my dad dropped 100lbs or so ten years ago, and the biggest change he made was taking daily walks. He probably also ate better (type 2 diabetes diagnosis, he started paying attention to carbs), but he's also the kind of person that can eat intuitively (the f---er, why couldn't I have inherited that from him), so I don't think he's ever actually counted any calories, just avoided sugar as best he could.1
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I had to up walking when COVID hit. In 6 months I lost 40lbs, but of course I had to be more decisive with how much I ate as well. But as of now till I'm back to work (which will be by the end of next week YAY) I'm walking over 20,000 steps a day.
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We're still in strict lockdown where I live so walking has been my sanity the past few months. I keep an eye on my heart rate making sure it's at about 70% for most of the walk. Clocked 77km in the last week. I'm finding it brilliant for maintaining a loss every week while other forms of exercise are shut.2
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Leesa_Michelle wrote: »I lost 77 lbs in 11 months - 50 in the first 3 due to walking and better diet. I started with 4,000 steps and added 1,000 every week until I hit 10,000. 10,000 is my base goal for the day. I do anywhere from 10,000 to 22,000 a day. About 10 minutes per 1,000 steps and that's about an hour and 40 minutes of walking or more a day. I do an hour in the morning, 45ish minutes at lunch and then I'll do more after work, if necessary or I want to. I burn anywhere between 500 and 1,200 calories just walking in a day. Walking is so underrated, in my opinion. Its not hard on the joints, it's enjoyable, especially around nice scenery, and it's great for your physical and mental health. My mental health has gotten so much better. One thing is I never ever break my rules: I go out rain or shine. The only time I don't is lightening, blizzard, or below 20°F. If those happen, I walk in place at home. And it comes first. I'm no longer working OT, if I don't put my steps in. The dishes can wait. Who cares about work or dishes, if I'm dead? Following those rules is the only thing that's helped me keep it off.
@Leesa_Michelle: this is really inspiring! And a great testament to how discipline and habits are far more important than motivation
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I as well. I even bought rain gear and waterproof shoes just for those rain days. Cold or not I go. And I walk twice a day for 90 minutes each time. Haven't missed a day since last April.Leesa_Michelle wrote: »One thing is I never ever break my rules: I go out rain or shine.
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