Walk with intensity. Have fun. Walk as if you know you are losing weight with each step you take. Keep iin mind the end result you want.
Walking for Weight Loss Testimonial
I recently read an inspiring article on walking as an effective means of losing weight. This is from the UK’s Mail Online (November 22nd) and I want to talk to you about a couple of aspects which affect weight loss success.
One man and two women tried out the claim that 6 months of brisk walking for an hour a day could lose up to 2 stone. Generally they had to be convinced that walking could work for weight loss. They had to ride through an early plateau with little loss before the evidence became obvious. They each lost over 1 stone in less than 6 months.
This seems like normal walking for weight loss to me. A way to increase weight loss is to make a change to your routine by regularly adding extra effort, such as increasing your walking miles each month, or adding variety, for instance, by using different muscles through a different approach such as using steps.
Fat Cells don’t die!
An interesting article on weight loss specifically points out the longevity of fat cells. This is bad news for long term weight loss because once having been ‘fat’ and developed a large number of fat cells, the body does not kill them off but leaves them as potential recipient cells for fat deposits, at any time in your future you allow that to happen.
Many of us have gradually put on successive layers of weight, used eating for stress release, are not former athletes who have the “gene” for exercise, have had little nuisance reasons which have kept them from activity.
This highlights 5 important points when walking for weight loss:
1. For non-athletes and the obese or injured, walking is most likely to be the most effective exercise for weight loss.
2. Weight loss needs to happen over a reasonable time for long term maintenance.
3. Activity needs to be a part of your lifestyle even after the desired weight loss has been achieved. It is not a ‘band aid’ which temporarily performs a function but an essential like vitamins.
4. Your life needs to involve other activities besides eating.
5. Variety within an activity is important to lasting commitment. Use dvds such as Walk Away the Pounds.
