Walking To Lose Weight

The big sell about walking to lose weight is that it takes off inches and gets your clothes to fit better! Walking in all its forms is fantastic life enhancing exercise for most people who are otherwise inactive. Walking for weight loss has other goals in addition to the wonderful benefits. These are some of the benefits which I have felt and am experiencing: my health and energy is maximized, my mood is generally good, and balances easily if I move away fom that, I am flexible and can do a bigger variety of activities, which otherwise I would have avoided (lifting heavy objects) or found someone else to do instead (play the Wii with the kids).

Having said that, the walking to lose weight beginner can get misled into believiing they are doing more than they are. Yes any activity improves your health and well being but for weight loss more is required.

Start anywhere, but be prepared to move quickly into a situation which benefits you the way you want. Others do not necessarily share your enthusiasm or goals and may even be reluctant walkers. This is not good for your long term success. Be aware that you may need to move on when a walking to lose weight partner is oblivious to doing more as you progress and build up your stamina and leg muscles.

One of the big drawbacks of weight loss programs designed around partners or carers, occurs if independence is  not built in.

Find others with similar goals and use any tools, websites or group activities which enhance your own progress. Walking to lose weight with a ’social’, reluctant or disabled walker, etc. can satisfy many other goals but probably weight loss will not be one of them. Seek others with similar goals to supplement your own enthusiasm if that should become necessary.

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As I mentioned in my last post I rebelled for a while by changing my walking to lose weight blog details from the accepted SEO standard of keyword optimization by playing around with some alternate keywords. My last few posts have digressed into business and have also attracted a number of business related comments and inquiries.

Having satisfied whatever desire to break the rule I felt at the time, I have returned to my first love which is walking to lose weight as a title. It seems much more meaningful to me and is a cornerstone of my well being strategy. Just as an alcoholic may think it better to see himself as an alcoholic even after numerous years on the wagon, I like the idea of keeping my weight loss maintenance through a walking (to lose weight) program.

Also as successful weight loss through walking requires preparation on the part of long term over eaters and under exercisers, the same is true for home based Internet Marketers when first starting out if you have worked for a large organization previously. The routines, responsibilities and logistics of working from home, and for yourself, make it normal to require a transition period for learning how best to create a high performance lifestyle.

The advantages of walking as a daily activity for home business owners is enormous- stress relief, creativity, mood control, health and energy improvements, physical well being, etc.

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When I started this blog as Walking to Lose Weight around August 2008 I was only aware of myself and how it would help me to walk as a weight loss strategy. I had been told that as a total newbie to Internet Marketing, doing it myself (that is without spending thousands of dollars on professionals doing it for me), to stay away from weight loss and physical exercise, as SEO blogs. The level of progress within the walking to lose weight keyword category testifies to an amazing and to me wonderful new emphasis on walking as an exercise, and its many benefits but primarily the benefit of weight loss.

Walking helps me with other areas of my life: it gets me around particularly in those periods when I have been without a car; I walked to school from kindergarten to the end of high school; then walked extensively around the university campus; it is a pleasure when living in particularly attractive areas to walk with friends for them to enjoy it with you, etc.

In other words I have never been adverse to walking other than in too hot weather.

The success of walking for weight loss as a public strategy meant that the monetary benefits from my blog almost matched my enthusiasm!

As a weight loss strategy it has been a long term goal for me to replace the short term diets and exercise with a lifestyle which supported my ideal weight.

Right now I feel very satisfied that everything in my life is better!

When I found that ‘walking to lose weight’ as a keyword had increased in competition enormously I changed the blog name to Walking for Weight Loss.

Walking for weight loss symbolizes  something bigger for me: it is the platform for change  in all areas of my lifestyle.  I changed  a 45  year life pattern-I’m talking about  the shape of my days not the shape of my body which also did change significantly- and my attitude to activity. My world view is different and healthier.

My world view now supports using a significant change in one area of your lifestyle to  create a new world view of yourself. Walking for weight loss has been this for me.

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After watchng and playing on the Wii this holiday, particularly Just Dance, it seems walking for weight loss may have a serious contest with other of the more technology based exercise tools. On the other hand it is possible that as much as I enjoyed it, the Wii is a part of the holiday or vacation mentality and not so much a regular way to enjoy exercise and its commensurate benefits.

Walking to lose weight continues to be of enormous benefit even in away from home or holiday mode. Recent vacation time for me included getting up and walking first thing, shopping at new boutiques and malls- lots of walking for weight loss- and activity from the time of awakening to bed at night, followed by restful restorative sleep.

I’m aware that the time we make for lifestyle change is often taken from elsewhere. It can be a challenge to find the extra time by removing another aspect of an existing fully comitted life.

This is done in a much better way when the new exercise routine can become a simultaneous goal with other important tasks which otherwise you may be reluctant to change.

Walking to lose weight is one of these ways of including weight loss exercise with normal daily tasks and goals. Another example is to use the Wii as part of the entertainment for friends and family.

The major advantage of walking for weight loss besides its calorie burning and muscle develping, is the ease with which you can adjust your lifestyle to joyfully include this regular exercise.

Don’t just be WiiFit this year-be walking for weight loss fit!

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Between my various lifestyle blogs which are about well being and living life fully, I endeavour to teach an approach to weight loss and exercise which is about building tactics into your life in such a way as to feel and be fulfilled regularly when doing what is essentially walking for health and weight loss.

The reason I am such a supporter of walking for exercise and weight loss, particulalry pedometer steps, is that walking is the no fuss, easy lifestyle adaptation for ongoing success.

Now watching Dr Oz on Oprah talk to the author of ‘The Blue Zone’ a book about the 4 longevity hotspots around the world, he emphasized that the significant aspect to their various dietary, exercise and social habits which contributed to unusually vigorous old age, was that these-whatever they were- were routiine for them.

In other words it was theorised that regularity in good health disciplines, which in these people’s cases were unconsciously applied, was a precursor to long life and health.

Walking for weight loss is a good habit even for those not wanting to lose weight.

Make activity, healthy eatiing and friendship a part of every day- and live long and prosper! (Thanks to Mr Spock.)

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