And Now Start All Over Again-

An active fully-functioning good-looking you is a given once walking to lose weight is an ongoing process, bringing a multitude of health and wellbeing benefits, some you last remember from your youth. Overweight can have many reasons and be justified if you like. On the other hand if you can accept activity as life giving and natural, then a joyous freedom from weight and some health issues awaits.

This is the beginning day for anyone seriously shedding weight from walking. Once the 31 Ways to Lose Weight Walking has been completed you are prepared to take on walking, activity and some high intensity workouts in a roll-out routine which is constantly tweeked and upgraded to foster variety and interest as you go.

This is the best life changing decision you will make. By the way this decision will affect every aspect of your life. However we can make this process relatively pain-free by keeping it fun and focussed on you.

From tomorrow Walking to Lose Weight will start a February program of ‘virtual’ walks.

Keep walking!

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Penultimate Day!

31 Ways to Lose Weight Walking

Walking and Weight Loss Congratulations for almost completing the Walking to Lose Weight program. This is a very special day as we are looking at your several successes from continuing with this program throughout January.

Tomorrow you will start planning for February. Could that be right? Yes. This is an ongoing way to set up your life for action and subtle weight control. Look at doing something differently in this next month. Now you are in line perfectly for increasing commitment and action towards furthering your results. Choose one of your target areas for February. Make it your only goal. Don’t drop any others as in focusing on exercise and eating everything in sight but let the one be the main tool for this new month.

Acknowledge that keeping the original commitment to the 31 Ways to Lose Weight Walking is an achievement to be appreciated. Just getting up everyday and thinking about, doing and recording your walking and activity is a big step. It means that you can do it. This is knowledge for the future. I can do it!

There has been weight loss, trimming, muscle and fitness development- how much depends upon you. Again it’s happened. Focus on the most important goal. Use these results to tailor next month’s program of Walking to Lose Weight.
You have taken active responsibility for achieving this goal. That’s a big step above complaining, feeling depressed, looking for other’s to make you happier about your size, etc.

This is time for appreciation of one month of dedicated walking to lose weight and the progress we’ve made. It is an important introduction to the Walking to Lose Weight program. Walking is not the fastest way to lose weight for most, but it is the likeliest to work over the long term and to become a part of your life once the loss is achieved.

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Make Up Your Own Special Walking Project-

There are many appropriate events for walking to lose weight by different groups, organisations and individuals around the world.

This Walking to Lose Weight program endorses opportunities for combining walking projects and weight loss by participating in fun min (or maxi) events which target walking (to lose weight) and training for events we’re doing.

Walking to lose weight is a spiral of walking, weight loss, walking, weight loss, walking, weight loss… at some point it becomes walking, weight control, walking, weight control, walking, weight control. With this in mind you need to learn to love it.

Yesterday on Day 28 of the 31 Ways to Lose Weight Walking we talked about having a specific purpose which will focus you and enable a greater than usual effort to jump your progress up a level.

Participating is a wonderful way to walk. For those who aren’t able to use this type of event, look at creating your own fun…many will piggyback their efforts with others who are doing the real thing.

Whether from circumstances or choice some people are not joiners and will not be involved in these group efforts but that doesn’t mean they can’t walk along doing a ‘pseudo-walk’.

Suggestions for creatively increasing the fun in walking to lose weight:

Visit your office headquarters, and learn about the area while walking around it; “Write” a book using mp3/4 player with microphone; Go to the closest ‘tourist’ town and find all about it by walking around it; Then walk around that next door town, get to know it; Walk around your home town. Do a new section each day. Don’t think you know an area if you’ve only driven through it; Track (virtual) your favourite actor/TV star- visit their home, go on tour with them; Learn (make believe) a hobby- walk to the appropriate sports store and activity area, rent DVDs and walk while watching; Take a famous train trip, e.g. walking the distance between stations; Walk to the birthplace of your mother and tell her of your progress; Listen to an exciting audio book only while walking, make it something special; Walk a long beach in the early morning and study the geography, surf board riders, fishing; Visit Paris, Rome and Venezuela; With a tourist guide and map, tour world famous art galleries; Learn exotic languages.

You’ve got the general idea. You’re bound to have better ones appealing to you in particular. Use walking for weight loss to enhance any other goals you have by embracing the time it provides for you to focus on motivating other dreams to fruition.

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Body Comfort.

At this point you need to make a decision whether or not to continue additions to your Walking to Lose Weight program. This decision is based on a few things. Have you managed to balance your life, the walking routine and these new more intense exercises? If you can keep going at this level, then continue it.

The Walking to Lose Weight program has chosen to finish the month of walking with a high intensity phase which can drop back to a moderate level for those who have struggled with it.

Generally those starting with some factors which require a slower approach to walking for weight loss will begin the repeat versions which start from February 1st – in other words this phase is a short term intensifier, with commensurate results but not with the intention of becoming permanent.

That extra energy surge required by your body, maybe during the high calorie burn segment of the Leslie Sansone’ DVD Walk Away the Pounds, uses the storehouse of energy (fat) to satisfy this new demand. Fortunately the body is amazingly quick at doing this.

If you have responsibilities which require your full and best attention today then a break or rest would be appropriate, with recommencement on the next available day.

Significant body tiredness does affect performance. Anxiety about performance can inhibit both physical and other tests.

On the other hand, a specific purpose behind the walking to lose weight program helps at this point. Define or create a deadline or goal with significance.

Just as when feeling hungry is beneficial for those wishing to lose weight because you know that it is time to eat and you know that you haven’t been eating too much, but too much hunger can lead to poor food choices and overeating, even under-fueling for necessary functions, there is an appropriate body discomfort after a new level of energetic exercise which tells you that you have increased calorie burn, are training muscles and will significantly reduce body fat. Physical injury, extreme tiredness, illness or headache etc. indicate care/rest is needed.

We are just 4 days from the end of this particular walking for weight loss program-go all out!

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Step Up!

By now you will have found the best way to monitor the amount of higher intensity activity you are doing while walking to lose weight.

Using a pedometer which measures this you will also get a reading on the calories this activity has used. The calorie burn is satisfyingly high for this fast paced exertion.

Alternatively you are timing various exercises or activities and checking the appropriate chart to calculate the calories burned.

In summary from the 31 Ways to Lose Weight Walking:

1. Day 1- Start from where you are, working up over time to 10,000 steps per day average and a minimum daily level of 6,000.

2. Day 25 – earlier if possible, add in higher intensity walking/exercise to increase the regular calorie burn.

3. If higher intensity activity is not an option increase the daily steps up to 15,000. To do this use every opportunity to walk.

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