I want the process to be fun, inspiring, successful and something that you build on for yourself, for a lifetime of Wellness. Walking to Lose Weight is an entry point for many people into a process that changes your whole life into purposeful, feel good, funtionality. A way to bring your life together by supporting yourself in all ways-feeling good, positive thinking and acting with synergism.

Walking or other exercise is an important part of the process-for a number of reasons. These are relevant depending upon your starting point. Everyone is different however the techniques are generally the same. How they are applied-when and with what variety depends upon you.

For instance, weight loss that is to tone up and reduce those last few kilos for your wedding day doesn’t require as much of a different mental approach as weight loss for a lifetime.

This is a simple process in so many ways yet the application requires a relaxed dedication. 

I am going to put a lot of information on this site for free. My wish is that you have as much satisfaction from this process as well as the weight loss as I have-and that is so huge it is hard to describe! The main technique is positive thinking, as well as a new way of using your thoughts and feelings to support your actions. This is particularly good for anyone who has suffered with depression.

Let Walking to Lose Weight be your starting point to something better!

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I’m pleased with the progress I am making with this idea and hope you will be as well. Walking to Lose Weight is a simple plan that enables you to relate to your body and connect it with your goals and aims for a better life.

You can start walking for any number of reasons. Usually losing weight is a side benefit whatever the motivation behind it. If you are under-exercised, overweight and stressed out or depressed then walk for its many health benefits and your life will improve.

The start of this new lifestyle is simple and easy. Walk!

One of the best effects of walking is for those who through depression or illness, isolation or lifestyle change, feel disconnected from their lives.

The first point I want to make is that I am talking about walking as exercise, not simply strolling outside for the fresh air or entertainment. These are also wonderful. However for the lifestyle enhancements we are looking for the exercise is a serious focus to bring harmony to your body, emotions, mind and spirit.

The first step is to become focused on a simple organising principle called Walking to Lose Weight.

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Walking to Lose Weight has morphed into something different-a lifestyle concept- for me personally and this has been the new story I’ve been telling for some time. I am delighted to see the number of new sites and gyms using the concept as well. The majority are not directly related to my efforts but some are. No this is a movement whose time has come!

While I have walked on and off for years prior to starting Walking to Lose Weight, the blog also gave me the opportunity to learn a new skill such as using the internet (I had been mostly a basic user) for marketing, and gave me the time and space to develop my own ideas for a healthy well being lifestyle. Yes I based it around Walking to Lose Weight and even though after a while this felt restrictive in some ways, by taking my time and allowing it to grow into an even better system for success, I feel really good about where I am today.

I am a passionate believer in the benefits of walking, with or without weight loss as a primary motive. Sometimes weight gain or retention is symptomatic of a larger issue that surrounds someone who is unable to deal with this big picture and settles on a specific detail such as weight loss.

Excess weight feeds into other issues and like a circle it isn’t always clear where ‘it’ started. These other issues also tend to be the ‘excuses’ for not taking on the clear steps to weight loss. Well they aren’t actually ‘excuses’ they are the causes and results of the overall malaise which is often ‘overwhelm’. Too many cares so often means it is difficult to focus on any one of them to a point of resolution.

This blog is now Walking to Lose Weight Walks Away Cares.

When weight loss is your only focus it is easy to do. By prioritising it, really sincerely making it my daily first and last thought, I have done it many times. Nothing beats dedicated  commitment to losing weight to…well..lose weight.

So short term diets and bootcamp exercise programs work for weight loss while you focus positively on them, but stop working when you don’t.

My overall recommendation is to make the reason WHY you want to lose weight your starting point. So often it encapsulates in the one issue a number of other issues that you seem powerless to resolve. Walking is a fine way to start treating all of you with the synergistic benefits of weight loss and feeling good, well being and health improvements and more.

As I continue with Walking to Lose Weight Walks Away Cares blog, I anticipate it’s growth into a trend setter for communities around the world to introduce this easy way to well being and self help.

To finish the story about yesterday, this is what happened as I reported it on Facebook:

Have you seen the rain??? Just spent hours at Lake Haven as buyers were coming to view the house. Always a good excuse to go for a little walk EXCEPT today it was a deluge beyond description. I was soaked through and took off my shoes and socks to dry under the hand dryer in the ladies which improved it a little and then I noticed that my umbrella-the big one I have had for ages but don’t normally use unless it is REALLY raining like today- was dripping red (it is a bright orange and red) and as it was too wet to go outside again I walked thru the centre dripping red dye behind me like I was Gretel leaving breadcrumbs to find my way back home!!!

My life is an adventure, I hope yours is too!

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Articles and experts who tell us that women in particular gain weight over 40 as their metabolic rates decrease are simply offering an explanation for why many people experience weight gain. In the public mind the reason is often seen as the age increase instead of the accumulation of life experiences that pull our commitment and brain space all over the place.

Weight gain has a lot to do with your lifestyle. Not just one ‘wrong’ thing but a series of choices that can detract from health and well being. I’ve put those other non-weight issues in there as overwhelm and excess stress is one way of accumulating weight instead of wealth and good times.

Gradually as we live our lives over many years our daily lives change. Levels of physical activity, body issues and commitments, take the focus away from connecting your body with yourself. I like to say that there is only one fact about our bodies-it will definitely be with you until the day you die!

Walking is a passion of mine as it is a wonderful way to bring balance back into your mindset. As walking to lose weight offers benefits for those having other issues such as anxiety, depression, health concerns, on top of wishing to lose weight, it is a remarkable tool for repairing your lifestyle. Yes it takes ‘longer’ to lose depending on where you start from-but taking a bit of time doesn’t matter when you recognise that these are changes you’re making for life! It is not a short term exercise! Whatever you use to lose the weight is likely to be required post weight loss to keep up the results. So the way you choose to lose weight is a choice you make about how you will live your life forever.

Sorry if you’re a ‘just the facts’ sort of person. Actually I’m not sorry. Heaps of people live their lives as though their body belongs to someone else and if they just nag it enough it will do ‘the right thing’. Does this work with your children?

It is just possible that if you create a new level of relationship with your body you might learn how to have a new way of talking to your children as well. Don’t however go there too soon.

Part of the typical problem is the swamping of your self respect around your body, a ‘sacrifice’ of it as a priority because you have other priorities now. If you had role models from the previous generation who had kept their own body goals with the addition of husband, children, bosses, etc. then you might have skipped any neglect issues around your own body. Certainly post-2000 generations are fortunate to have a media which promotes the continued body care after marriage and pregnancy of many women in the arts and entertainment, and now for everyday people.

Those who still have the hangover of expectations that married women, mothers and grandmothers should act, look and be, less concerned about their own priorities may find it hard to easily keep fit and healthy.

I will be starting a new approach to Walking to Lose Weight that incorporates the self care issues. Walking is my favourite way to de-stress. It is also a great way to get fitter, feel younger and look good.

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My quality of life has skyrocketed with the development of walking to lose weight as a lifestyle. Walking has been a life saver for me, not literally but as a path to restoring my joie de vivre.

I call this post Walking to Lose Weight Rebel to reflect my position as a professional voice for those struggling to cope with many aspects of their lifestyles including a desire for weight loss. I delight in the emphasis on using your mind to feel, look and be better! This includes using law of attraction techniques for weight loss. Basic psychology around weight loss helps us understand why you are hanging onto your weight but use of positive thinking, redefining words to your own advantage, and self affirmation helps you move beyond understanding. Dwelling on understanding your problem delays your success. Take the next step!

Walking is complimentary to making improvements in your life and well being. It is my best tip for overwhelm reduction!

The reason why many people find diet and exercise stressful relates to how they look at it. It is often seen as a a form of punishment and criticism. Even when self imposed!

My holistic approach focuses on increasing your quality of life overall and includes weight loss. Walking becomes the delivery system for a number of life improvements. Walking is slower for weight loss than more intrusive methods and changes can be made at a comfortable sustainable pace. The advantages are great whether you are counting steps, walking on a treadmill or outside.

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Today I woke feeling awesome! It was a great way to start the day. Then it came to me to share how I feel so good in general, and specifically when walking. This has a lot to do with some special people in my life over the years.

In my younger days I walked regularly-to school, to and on campus, to get around. It wasn’t until I met someone who would walk at any time given the opportunity that I was introduced to a new level of joy in walking. He had a different perspective and was physically fit, a contrast to me, before Walking to Lose Weight.

This changed my attitude a little towards walking. It became something I did for pleasure. Walking with him in the bush or even locally would become an awakening to nature for me. I had managed little understanding or exposure to the natural world until that point. While on a walk he would frequently point out leaves and animal tracks with some interesting tidbit of information. But he also loved walking the shoreline or around a nice area to look at the houses. Obviously we had moved on to a new level of relationship and houses were of interest to us. We would look at the houses and gardens for inspiration-summer was especially good. The houses come to life with open doors and activity outside.

Thanks to him even after we went our separate ways I felt different about walking and eventually Walking to Lose Weight. He was, and still is, a very funny man. I love people with a good sense of humour.

Another Walking to Lose Weight example is a very good friend whom I have known longer than anyone other than my brother.

She has a lovely sense of humour and we have a lot of fun together. We live in different states so that is not often. It is only recently that we have taken the opportunity when we are together to walk as much as possible. These have been so totally joyful that I want all walking to lose weight to be like that.

She appreciates the opportunity to walk with someone. I would walk anyway. Even if I try to sneak in a walk without her it never works, she manages to come too. The result is that we have so much fun. I have laughed so much I can feel my body being exercised all over. Someone who wants to have fun is the perfect walking partner!

Walk alone unless you can find other feel good walkers.

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She might say to herself:
“Aren’t I gorgeous? I’ve set a new standard of deliciousness in the community. These feet were made for walking. I am gorgeous! And so’s the rest of the world.”

This character fully embraces who she is with enthusiasm and self love to be admired.

When Geraldine did go for a walk she would use her imagination and her inspiration to see what she was doing as something much more important and bigger than reality might suggest.

I am designating Geraldine, The Vicar of Dibley, as official hero on the Walking to Lose Weight Facebook Page.

Let Geraldine be your inspiration. Not for her body or eating habits that represent everything we at Walking to Lose Weight do not advocate. But for her attitude!

So when you are walking to lose weight take Geraldine with you as your imaginary friend. Imagine the self affirming conversation and gigglefest.

I am so delighted to have remembered the expertise of this character at loving herself. Rose coloured glasses are her forte. These words are presented for laughter as part of the script yet we enjoy her exuberant self confidence (at least I do) rather than see it as self delusion.

Anyone on my free Hints and Tips for Weight Loss subscription list will know how much I endorse this positive self evaluation as a part of the weight loss process.

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How often are the best opportunities the ones staring you right in the face?

Getting older offers one particular blessing-that there is no one ‘found it’ going to do it that way for the rest of my life…Everything changes, yourself included. There is a certain comfort in knowing that ‘well I’ve made that decision’ and not having to think it out again but if you’ve accepted what once was the best decision for you at the time as a forever decision you may benefit enormously from reviewing it. Such as your attitude to exercise or weight loss and in this particular case, Walking to Lose Weight.

I know that Walking to Lose Weight has been hidden from others to a certain extent by most people who do it. There has been good reason for this. Others even with the best intentions often don’t ‘get it’ and this can be discouraging for some. Since it is a regular and time consuming habit it can alter your lifestyle and ways of associating with friends. Over time it can mean making new friends though so look at it as a way of expanding your social or employment network.

Try walking the New York way for instance. This city is well know for walking. It is not an entertainment but a means of getting around. Totally admirable and weight loss oriented.The distance covered can be many city blocks and it is not a stroll! Just a normal part of a normal day. It isn’t hidden at all.

Or use a lunch break to walk to a vendor on the other side of the city. Walk to do your chores such as dry cleaning, etc.

These are skinny people, friends! Learn from them.

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I like walking to lose weight in retrospect because of how easy it is to start being successful. Then that initial success is more easily built on and reaching for advanced goals is a natural process.

What do I mean?

Walking to Lose Weight maintains a relaxed yet successful attitude to exercise and caring for your own well being. Governments, those in or associated with, public office and other organisations around the world, here in Australia and also in the USA especially over recent years, have implemented programming promoting walking.

Our societies have been dominated by transportation issues and not as friendly to walkers and runners.

Now it is more supported and enjoyable to start and advance a walking for weight loss program. This is not for weight loss alone as the advantages of exercise and walking in particular is the fitness and well being that this simple process brings. It helps prepare us for taking on more activity as we age rather than less.

Walking and weight loss are now out front, high profile rather than hidden. It has become obvious to me as I move around that many people are active on purpose. This often includes walking. It is a stand by for those times when a pick up is needed whether in mood, clarity of mind, or weigh loss.

Being active on purpose is more about enabling ourselves to continue to be an active, involved, participant in our lives.

Walking to Lose Weight has become Being Active On Purpose.

Would you like to be active on purpose?

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Walking to Lose Weight has become a lifestyle choice for many women in recent times. I know that men do it as well, but often as a part of their journey elsewhere. On the way to running for instance or because the doctor said so.

I find it wonderful that there is a silent revolution happening within our everyday lives that is the easy sure way to add fitness and weight control to our lifestyles. It doesn’t matter why I am walking anymore walking has become a part of my life that I like to keep doing because it enhances it!

In this Walking to Lose Weight post what I want to talk about today is walking as a part of most people’s way of caring for themselves in body and mind. I find that when I mention walking for weight loss in conversation to others I’ve just met, so often they say the same thing: I walk too!

There are so many different ways to be walking for weight loss that walkers do not necessarily run into each other!

It appeals to so many people and even those who have moved on from weight loss as motivation still commit to walking as an addition to their lifestyle.

Walking as a lifestyle habit is one of the best you can have. It enables peace of mind and clarity of thinking. Take a look at this video of Will Smith. He talks about running as a key to a successful  life. Substitute walking and the same applies. We’re not all going to be Will.

Running is the key:Will Smith

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