Walking To Lose Weight

Walking to Lose Weight Walks Away Cares

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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