Walking

Walking is indeed excellent exercise. If you're losing weight consistently then that may be all you need. That said, if you aren't feeling challenged, you may want to pick up the pace a bit to get the heart moving a little faster. Have fun.

Walking is excellent fat-burning exercise, it doesn't have to be too stressful. Too much strain will raise cortisol and be counter-productive. Collapsing in a heap at the end is not the way to go, IMO.

Rather than increase the intensity of the walking I'd add some resistance training in there to help preserve muscle mass. Even if it's just some push-ups. Working for me anyway

As others say, do what you enjoy and have fun!

Walking is all the exercise I do right now, like yourself I tried others including getting a personal trainer however it took me going on a trip to Africa and doing a lot of walking daily that got me loosing weight. I now realize 2 years later and gaining all the weight and more, that walking did it for me. I am going to stick with walking and continue to watch my calories and I believe I should be okay. I will see how this works out after about a month.

Walking is the way I am loosing weight. I am using a treadmill though. I am up to 4 miles a day and increasing every few days. I have bad knees and don't want to start running and end up having more knee surgery. Keep up the good work and don't give up.
Angela

Walking is a great way to lose weight. It doesn't have to be strenuous (sp) either. I just started walking too because I absolutely hate treadmills. I also started riding my bicycle once in a while in place of walking. I should take my dog walking too!

Honestly, I don't think anything works as good as walking as a method of losing weight and toning. You may want to speed it up every few minutes, or even jog so that you can keep your heart rate up and get a better workout.

As everyone else has said, walking is an excellent form of exercise. If you're feeling up to it, challenge yourself a little more. If not, keep doing what you're doing

I love walking and it is what I can stick with. I try to walk 4-5 miles a day 6-7 days a week. I can only do this because I enjoy it - that is outside walking. Put me on a treadmill and I think 5 minutes feel like an hour! I have lost 39 pounds since February walking and eating 1200-1500 calories a day. I am trying to find a way to build up muscle as I think that is the key to maintaining and being able to eat so much more.

This is pretty much what I do. I walk the dog 6-7 times per week 30 - 120 minutes per day. I like to change up where we go and what we do. Hiking with him is a nice change. It is so easy to do as regular exercise and it is fun. I am trying to throw the odd different activity in there but I'm not doing anything else on a regular basis. Keep walking

For losing fat while preserving muscle, it's the best exercise in my view, mainly for the reason you stated -- it's easy and requires little motivation. Anecdotally, I lost 100 lbs. in six months by strength training and walking at just 3.0 mph, which is really little more than traipsing. Of that 100 lbs., 89 was fat and 11 was muscle -- I think that's a good trade from 308 to 209, considering I'm not carrying that enormous weight around any longer.

I would go so far as to say that people shouldn't sprint or even run until their body fat % indicates fitness: 14-17% for men and 21-24% for women.

Walking is a great way to exercise, and I'm sure your pooch loves the extra attention ....... that's all I did at first ..... walking helped me lose the first 40 lbs .....

Enjoy :drinker:

I should also explain....I feel so lazy when I read a lot of other posts. People doing all the videos...zumba...lifting...classes...etc. It makes me feel like walking is lazy....I was so happy to see this thread. I can't do any of the others.....I have horrible arthritis in my knees and anything more than walking and elliptical hurts....I am only 38 too.

Spartan: thank you for your comment! I am so happy to know I am not alone! :-)

I love walking. I hate all the other activity workouts...unless I am actually doing it with someone, because I get bored easy and give up real easy as well. Walking is getting the heart bumping, but I mean......if i try to go for a run .....I'm like dying lol ......haha so why don't you do the walking till you loose as much weight as you want, and then when you loose the weight...... try to then run and it might be even easier on your ankles and yourself, and wont be as hard to keep up with the run, then if you where to do it now with having more weight on you. Like me at 160 I would die running lol, but I want to loose some more weight and then hopefully it will be a lot easier for me to try and start running because I will have built strength and momentum. If you want a little more to help make you feel better ...that you are doing more then just walk, you can add weights to your walk. Like 3lb weights and that actually helps out a lot in your arms and with how you walk. You can pick up the pace a bit to and you will see a tremendous difference. Good luck doll. I take my own advice lol and try to keep up with it. lol