How Much Success with just Walking?

I dropped 20 pounds in 3 months, and walking was the only exercise I did. Thankfully, my neighborhood is a 3/4 mile loop. Four laps in about 40 minutes, 3x a week, was sufficient for me. Your mileage may vary.

awesome! These reply's are making me feel so motivated!

I currently do try to maintain a 1200 cal a day like MFP wants me to - I know I'm not perfect everyday but I do pretty well. I don't really workout at all right now, and I've really just maintained but lost a little bit. I keep going back in forth with the same 5 pounds or so though so I am sure if I just add 2 or 3 miles at first the weight will start coming off much easier

Plus my puppies need to get out of the house! I cant walk them both, so now I have to figure out how to convince my SO to go with me lol

Please bear in mind that 1200 is probably unnecessarily low. MFP is not a one-size-fits-all tool when it comes to calorie estimation... It is totally worthwhile to do your own research on BMR, TDEE, and tailor your calorie allocation to something that suits you.

1200 calories a day was NOT a sustainable amount of food for me (personally) to eat for the rest of my life, which is why I'm eating 1800 and not having a problem keeping weight off. Just remember that if you're feeling hungry a lot of the time, you could probably eat more. You are doing a really great job! Thankfully summer is here and this is a great time for enjoying the outdoors

I also have a nice library of 'dusty' workout videos. walk walk walk. it works.

I fell like to me, since I have an issues feeling mentally overwhelmed with the videos & stuff - it's less threatening to me to just walk/jog...if that makes sense to anyone else lol

I truly don't understand this "mentally overwhelmed with the videos and stuff" can you explain a little more? What is overwhelming about it....It's just a workout.....not trying to be an *kitten*......Seriously trying to understand the apprehension...

I fell like to me, since I have an issues feeling mentally overwhelmed with the videos & stuff - it's less threatening to me to just walk/jog...if that makes sense to anyone else lol

I truly don't understand this "mentally overwhelmed with the videos and stuff" can you explain a little more? What is overwhelming about it....It's just a workout.....not trying to be an *kitten*......Seriously trying to understand the apprehension...

I saw a show about this recently, and I can relate a little bit. If we're talking about someone who has never been active at all, ever, then yeah. All these new movements and exercises can be intimidating, especially if you're trying to do them by yourself. Walking is something we already know how to do, and if we can be successful at losing weight while walking, then we can progress to trying more activities.

I guess at least in my opinion....you can't be afraid to fail.....You will fail at some things some time.....How you handle that defines you......Failing at a workout is no big deal.....you do what you can and move on........To not try because you are afraid you might fail seems more daunting to me. I mean I get it....what you said makes sense......but I think there is something to be said for truly challenging yourself and learning what you are capable of vs. doing the minimum to make yourself better than you were.......yet still remaining a long ways from what you could be.

I guess at least in my opinion....you can't be afraid to fail.....You will fail at some things some time.....How you handle that defines you......Failing at a workout is no big deal.....you do what you can and move on........To not try because you are afraid you might fail seems more daunting to me. I mean I get it....what you said makes sense......but I think there is something to be said for truly challenging yourself and learning what you are capable of vs. doing the minimum to make yourself better than you were.......yet still remaining a long ways from what you could be.

And some people who have weight to lose got it because something else might be going on. I'm definitely not disagreeing with what you're saying, but at some point we have to be realistic. Sometimes the ideal attitude isn't an option for everyone, at least not to start. The activity isn't always the most challenging part. And the mental and emotional part of it isn't just a switch we can turn on and off.

Your minimum may be someone else's maximum, at least to start Once people are able to get started successfully, then we can keep the challenges coming.

I lost 7 pounds in 17 days (joined earlier, relapsed, Miss Business now, etc) doing the Couch-to-5k and just watching my calories. I also do some other exercises, such as weightlifting at home with dumbbells, resistance training, rebounding, yoga, and pilates, but the Couch-to-5k is my main regime. It's great because it's pretty easy on you at first while still being a great workout, and slowly builds you up to jogging longer distances. If you're not a great runner, I highly recommend it, because I suck at running and I'm at week 3 with an already much high endurance.

Walking also works pretty good for me. I've already lost 20 pounds in a month by eating a little less and walking for 1-3 hours a day (depending on how busy I am that day.)

I also started out with just walking. At the time I had just moved to a new city, didn't have many friends or money, couldn't afford a gym membership, etc. I started out just power walking, and eating better, and I started to lose weight slowly. Eventually I added jogging/running into the mix, with walking still though, and I started doing push-ups, lunges, and some other basic strength stuff that I just did in my own room. It worked and that's how I started my weight loss journey! Walking is great!

but you have to walk really far, like six miles.

Nonsense!

Agreed.


36kg.. diet+walk