Walking To Lose Weight

Walking to lose weight blog often mentions the advantages of using the relatively anonymous  support available on the Internet. This is because the influence of friends and family is not always the right sort for effective weight loss or walking.

A Colorado State University study looked at the influence of overweight friends and states that friends, family and social groups are the main determinant when it comes to being overweight or successful in losing weight and particularly in maintaining weight loss. In other words if your friends are fat the chances you are also increases. If they lose weight so will you. In this study the results suggest that even normally weighted individuals will eventually put on weight if surrounded by others who are overweight.

There are many programs designed to utilise positive influence in weight loss. Just as with other systems or techniques buddying up has successes and failures. Weight loss friendships can provide needed motivation. The down side of this dependency is the lack of self discipline. Walking to lose weight does challenge us in some ways. For every negative there is a potential positive and vice versa. In the case of friendships, social influences, media and weight loss buddies what is ideally positive influence and role modeling behaviour, can be the reason a goal of walking for weight loss, or simply losing weight itself, is a failure.

Often the overweight feel vulnerable when exercising-this is one of the attractions of walking and exercise dvds which are relatively easy  and if occasionally you do look silly, or red in the face, or have to sit down and rest while others are still walking, it doesn’t matter. The advantage of at home solutions for exercising is the lack of public exposure, including no fear about what you’re wearing, or how you do it. The same can apply to looking for support in online groups or Twitter.

Happily you may find others with similar goals and approaches online who are there to encourage you and field questions. However even in weight loss chat rooms and forums some people are very specific about the way they believe weight loss works. Ignoring other people’s attitude to your weight loss method, unless it helps you keep doing what you need to do, is a skill necessary for success, whether online or not.

As you get the wanted result and start to look and feel fantastic the sensitivity about other’s opinions will matter less and less. The result is worth it.

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Weight loss and other benefits from walking can and do make such a difference to your life that it is fantastically worth while.

Weight loss maintenance is the best way to succeed after walking to lose weight, otherwise you’ll be doing it all again! Plenty of techniques work for weight loss. It isn’t such a surprise that someone loses weight with a diet or surgery or exercise. The key is keeping to that new weight!

The benefits of walking to lose weight are many and wide ranging but in particular losing weight and slimming down are easy this way.

Walking well requires the right kind of support, walking partners, fun, thinking and tools. Walking for weight loss works for the majority of people. It is maintained more than any other weight loss method. Weight loss isn’t an issue until it becomes layered in repeated cycles of weight loss, weight gain, weight loss, weight gain, weight gain…

Walking to lose weight is easier but not necessarily quicker – however it is much more likely to be permanent! Walking is mostly beneficial, easy to do, suits many people, easier to maintain beyond the initial weight loss program, most likely to be maintained.

The attitude most beneficial is that this is the start of an everyday active life- whatever that means for you. The changes to your life are gradual as you progress from sedentary to active and there is plenty of opportunity to create ways which suit your life and social routine.

If doing it in public is intimidating for you then you need to look at the many home options for walking for weight loss including such wonderful dvds as Leslie Sansone’s Walk Away the Pounds.

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When you think about it sometimes doing virtual walking to lose weight can be much easier than the real thing. All the hassles about the weather on the day, how to get there, who else is doing it, will it be too hard, too easy, does it cost too much, who will I know?

The object of the virtual exercise is to remember that the Walking to Lose Weight approach is about creating an ongoing easy lifestyle which supports you and your ideal weight or size. Walking to lose weight, calorie burning, high energy exercise, counting steps, are all components of a weight loss regimen – combined they become a part of the lifestyle which keeps you at your new everyday lighter size. Making this easy means making this fun and rewarding, for all time.

These virtual exercises are designed to push your exercise and walking to lose weight program and make it more interesting by offering some alternative ways to include walking and weight loss into your life. As you do the virtual exercise, check out the videos and information on the events included, you are opened to more and different places and ways to enjoy yourself. This is really feeling on top of the process of walking for weight loss as you begin to see how it can become a pleasurable part of your life, and if you wish, can include friends or family, holidays, social events.

It can be fun to participate in organised events. The virtual process though is more about creating and organising your own events which satisfy your requirements and are also effective walking and weight loss exercise. Expose yourself to the opportunities involved in using your imagination to make this an inclusive lifestyle. This is a fun way of resolving to never have fitness or weight problems ever again!

Training:

Set a target of additional exercises such as stair climbing or jogging indoors to simulate sand walking. Indoor activities can get away from heat or cold, and other, issues.

Virtual Walking: Sleeping Bear Dunes on Lake Michigan

This will be 3.5 miles and tough because it is in sand. But worth it! This video will give you an idea of what you will experience as you climb.

Today’s the day for your virtual trek, to push yourself once again using both your body and imagination by participating with Walking to Lose Weight in this adventurous exercise. We’re climbing Sleeping Bear Dunes in Michigan. Get ready, dress appropriately. You’ll need good shoes, take a couple of water bottles, a sense of humour and go…

Oh and sleeping – as previously posted, sleeping well has a positive influence on weight loss. Walking makes sleeping easier as well!

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This is one way of getting some extra leg exercise, and as usual, let your imagination help you by participating in the walking to lose weight virtual walk, the details of which will be in the next post.

Beach Walking to Lose Weight is going to strain the back of your thighs and can be uncomfortable. If it is hot then do the obvious- wear sun glasses, sun screen and preferably walk in the shade. The beach can also be windy, wet and cold. This is when doing a virtual exercise is a benefit! Walking barefoot is practical and can be a mini massage, as long as the sand is not too hot. Shoes and boots may fill with dirt/sand and be uncomfortable. Sandals could be an option. If it’s cold…

Walking practice for the beach requires a sort of stretch stepping motion. In practical terms try to put lots of steps, two at a time, into your routine. Lift your leg high when walking. Another characteristic of walking on beaches is that once you’ve started you have to finish. As you are walking from point A to point B, generally there is only a go back or continue option. So put yourself in a situation where at some point you’ll want to give up but can’t..

It’s romantic to walk in sand but let’s be clear – this is dry sand! Not damp solid sand at the edge of the waves which is easy walking on the beach. Or the pebbly beaches where it requires shoes otherwise it’s like a painful reflexology treatment. (Walking in the shallows is easier because of the firm ground but does require a high step out of the water. Use Walk Away the Pounds for practice.)

As a preview to this week’s virtual walking exercise on sand, a little preparation helps make it all the more effective so join in real life by increasing the effort and type of exercise you’re doing.

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What could be more romantic than a virtual walk through the French countryside? Perhaps a walk in some of the most famous streets in the world in Paris.

Walking is so beneficial that it is a natural love potion i.e. love of life, and done daily is a weight management technique. It is a physical tonic which taken everyday improves health to the extent you allow it into your life. The desire of this blog is to make wellbeing pervasive in your life through everyday activity such as walking to lose weight. For the majority this is not likely to create long distance hikers or trekkers. It is about being able to do more, physically, be more fun to be with and feel better within and about yourself.

Walking to lose weight combines two goals. It is using the shorter term motivation of losing weight which can mean any number of things such as wanting to look good, be healthier, be more dynamic; and walking as an easy way to build an active life, the lack of which is often the result and/or cause of the overweight in the first, second and third place

The results of walking to lose weight include an extreme wellbeing which is not always the same as weight loss. The purpose of this blog is to achieve both.

Valentine Walk

For our virtual Valentine Walk use your imagination to see yourself walking the streets below the Place du Tertre and climb the steps up the Montmartre hill during the day, or at night where a feel for the ‘old’ Paris is retained.

It is very easy to walk several miles just looking at the artist areas, Sacre Coeur basilica, the view over Paris. The number of miles or hours you will walk around this historic village are up to you. It is a special occasion so choose how long you would want to be there enjoying the atmosphere. Don’t forget to put in a long climb up the very steep Montmartre steps. (Use a step machine or DVD.

Meanwhile those who prefer the countryside can take a relaxed walk from Rocamadour to Meyronne via Mayrihac. Plan about 8 miles of walking from the stunning Rocamadour to the Meyronne’ chateaux with beautiful views overlooking the Dordogne river.

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