Walking To Lose Weight

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Does Age Matter?

Since Walking to Lose Weight I have changed my philosophy on age and the counting of the years. When they’re young a lot of focus is directed towards how old a child is and it is important to them because of this. So many freedoms seem attached onto the years accrued. The book, Outliers by Malcom Gladwell, makes an important point by showing how often the month of their birth can influence a child’s success, particularly as to physical tasks. So someone put into a class of smaller kids can become to believe in their greater ability as a facet of talent rather than simply a function of their size and manual dexterity relative to that of the younger group.

Should Age Matter?

Age itself doesn’t matter. This point made by Gladwell is that a ‘perceived’ talent can be turned into a ‘real’ talent over time with the self belief that it exists.

How Old is Too Old?

If you can take an advantage and use it then do so. The advantages of age exist at every year of your life cycle.

When looking at an exercise program such as this one advocated on Walking to Lose Weight it always requires that walkers start from where they are.

The age issue here (as we’re talking to adults) relates to how old is too old to get more vitality and activity from your lifestyle?

As it is when we’re young and anxious to ‘grow up’ so it is as we age- that certain associations of disability can become dominant expectations around older ages.

The benefits of walking accrue at any age with regular exercise. Sometimes the level of disability makes the normal activity of walking difficult. For information along these lines read Too Old for Pedometer Steps?

The Advantages of Age

Over time I admire the positive traits of both youth and the mature ages even more. In our wealthy and privileged countries most of us live a life of advantage compared to previous eras. This includes the availability of medical and lifestyle technology that would have seemed a fantasy to our ancestors.

Many of the advantages are available to anyone whatever their age and it is only an attitude of perceived limitation that prevents some ages from using the benefits from these different lifestyles in their own. Frankly much of this can be directed at the older ages that suffer from comfortableness. Comfort is a great attribute and is to be admired except when it prevents kaizen or constant improvement.

Starting again in any way can be uncomfortable for many adults. Having gained a certain status, dignity, position, etc. the thought of giving up any of this hard earned achievement seems silly. The accumulation of responsibilities, assets, goals can make leaving it to the young ones can seem a noble option.

When you stop embracing life with open arms the push of energy towards mental renewal stops as well. All our cells renew. Our bodies are new-renewed continually as cells are replaced. Different organs renew at different rates but at any one time our bodes are relatively new. When our thoughts are ‘old’ so are we. A re-evaluated and improved ‘thought’ is ‘new’. It may not actually have changed much. It will however keep us young.

For some the retreat into ‘old’ is a well earned retirement or it is the excuse for not doing what others want of you. There are other ways to get the freedom old age often brings.

The perspective of age is valuable-life experiences that enhance your life force, your willingness to live for yourself as well as others.

Walking to Lose Weight is a way of finding that life force renewal.

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Once again I glanced at the headline for the world’s largest run, with my usual attitude, I might add: that’s on again. Since it’s been running (!) for 40 years that is probably a common thought. Then it struck me-hey I could do this. At this point of my flight of fancy I realized that it was on this Sunday! Very unlikely to be do-able for little ol’ walking to lose weight me.

Instantly I abandoned whatever thoughts that led to this ‘aha’ moment.

Ready to move on the thought then struck me that really next year was the much more appropriate time for me anyway!

Stick with me here. Walking to lose weight and fun runs ( well serious for some runners but for the rest of us an excuse for a major street party) are not a natural fit on first thought. The Sydney City to Surf 14 km run has 80000 entrants and the smallest percentage are serious about running. It takes forever just to leave the starting line!

The comments I’m making at this stage are from years of being vaguely interested in it. I remember one year standing at the front of a friend’s house with a glass of wine in hand offering encouragement to those passing by.

I’m also aware of Heartbreak Hill, a major incline just before the finish line.

The new Walking to Lose Weight attitude requires making walking an integrated and fun, as well as functional, part of my (and your) life. What better way to feel committed then to have a goal to ‘do’ the City2Surf.

Just as with other aspects of walking to lose weight this requires some thought and preparation. I’m not committed to the event at this point. I am committed to  checking it out and evaluating it as a way to exercise with discipline. Essentially for me this would be a 14 km walk. It should be fun, scenic and social. Who’s with me?

Anyone who is participating or would like to, throw in your suggestions as well and see what creativity can  make of this opportunity.

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Walking to lose weight is a wonderful way for me to stay connected to my overall desire to lead a fit and happy lifestyle. I use this blog and others to express my joy at finding a way that I can be embracing of a fun and easy to lose weight lifestyle, and maintain that loss without having a stop/start mentality. That is, move on from treating weight loss as special occasion behavior without modifying my thoughts, feelings and behaviors.

As part of this process I have developed an approach that is about making it fun to be living a life of wellness and healthy vitality.

Walking to lose weight encourages daily appreciation of your life. Walking almost forces you be positive and look around you. It is a genuine alternative to Valium and meditation. It has major stress relief benefits.

This is the best way for those juggling several areas of stress and worry in their life to consciously work on one area-health or weight loss- and also help in other areas. Walking to lose weight becomes a pivotal tactic for resolving much of the tension in your life.

This is an all embracing use of Walking to Lose Weight to cover activity of all sorts and those who are currently seeking to lose weight and those who have reached their body weight goals. If you need to change your activity levels substantially i.e. over an extended period of time, say longer than one year, to lose the weight, than you need a lifestyle change.

Walking must become a part of your lifestyle, and other exercise activities are also helpful for creating variety and specific results.

Weight loss becomes integrated into your daily life schedule. This then continues once the weight is lost or desired size achieved.

With walking to lose weight as a lifestyle, lots of fun ways to appreciate the essential nature of activity in your life are helpful. You might like to tweet your steps or thoughts while walking, or find us on Facebook at Walking to Lose Weight.

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A way to make a walking to lose weight and an exercise for fitness program work for me has been to make it an equal part of my lifestyle as other important aspects. While weight loss is often at the back of the  mind of many of us it isn’t always a part of the activity or task schedule of our daily lives. It tends to be an add-on process. It takes off at certain times and then retreats back into obscurity when other more pressing (on some scale)needs or goals take over.

One way this reveals itself as a disadvantage is when you have actually been successful. The relaxing of your desire i.e. goals around weight loss and the tasks or focus required to achieve the original goal, often means a return to the exact behavior which caused the problem in the first place, such as lack of exercise or  poor diet and food consumption habits.

It is likely that you have lost weight successfully before. Often times it is a lack of ability to continue the behavior which caused the weight loss which triggers the return of excess weight. To use a trivial example, say your house is generally comfortable but messy. Your mother-in-law is coming and you want to make a good impression so a spring clean is underway. You could even say to yourself as you appreciate how nice it feels to be in a cleaned house with the sunshine and flowers creating a cozy effect: ‘This is the way I want it to be always.’  Yet with the mother-in-law gone (and she lives far away) and the kids come home and don’t understand your new desire for order and cleanliness, soon you’ve forgotten you had any other goal then to tidy up for a particular occasion.The same applies to diet and exercise aimed at one goal-weight loss- without embedding the desire into your lifestyle.

Walking for weight  loss and activity for its own sake adds value to your life in many ways. Eating in filling yet healthy ways also adds to a sense of caring and looking after ourselves and our bodies which also feels good.

Counting calories or pedometer steps are ways to systematize a balanced diet and regular exercise into your lifestyle. Walking to lose weight is a lifestyle choice which lends itself to activity as a matter of course. While other  exercise options are still necessary because variety is important, the advantage of walking is its ability to fit into most lifestyles with ease, and making it easy is instrumental to weight loss success.

Walking to lose weight becomes an attitude pervasive enough that once established it has its own  momentum and replaces the need to consciously choose to diet or exercise.

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When I talk about walking to lose weight as a lifestyle and the wonderful life benefits it can bring, it doesn’t translate for certain people-and honestly, they’re the people who most need to know this!

If you don’t understand how good it feels to live in an exercised body it probably means you have never done it and doubt the result.

The exercise and gym fan with the appropriate clothes and early start, is hooked on something. It is the natural high of endorphins and the benefits of feeling good. Feeling good can have a major influence on your lifestyle as you choose to enjoy it!

Walking to lose weight as a lifestyle embodies those who wish to have a life full of every day joys in the best way possible. Most adults do not get daily exercise and this can lead to health and weight problems in the long term. Having a diversion from your main daily focus whether family or work is also healthy, a way to relax from the peculiar stresses of your main life.

The more of an asset walking becomes in your lifestyle the more weight loss results. Eventually you will forget that the reason why you started walking to lose weight and do it for the many positive aspects it brings into your life.

To start feeling better about your body is a good way to get the right mindset for weight loss.

Think of your new body as you might an impressive loved one. Admire the willingness to do the best it can; its ability to perform at a new level and on an ongoing basis; thank your body by looking after it and responding to its needs. This is not an inventory of faults but encouragement and solutions. Identify when help is needed but be a supporter not an inhibitor. Over worry or in fact worry of any kind is a burden. Appropriate concern encourages finding solutions not giving up.

Be a guardian angel-make walking to lose weight a way to  ’enlighten’ your body!

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