Walking to Lose Weight-Day 26
Walking to lose weight requires vision.
Muscles weigh more than fat. As you exercise you gain muscle (weight) and lose fat. Weight alone may not indicate the positive changes in your body. As we start tracking calorie usage it is timely to remember that fat lost does not mean weight loss if muscle build up is more than the fat losses.
Overall you would probably like your body weight to be “respectable”. Be careful that you haven’t made your weight goal too low and counter to the exercised body you now have.
The Walking to Lose Weight program is a journey of increasing activity and weight loss, and it requires you to focus on the changes and their benefits beyond weight loss.
All these improvements which you are constantly experiencing carry you through the longer term aspects, ensuring that you stick with walking and exercise until and after you’ve achieved your perfect body.
As January ends look at increasing your focus on energy expenditure. However my experience suggests that this is best kept as a learning and guiding process rather than a constant calculation.
Overdoing the process monitoring can cause pressure and frustration which ultimately can undo the progress you are making. Changes may be overlooked because you are expecting them to be noticeable and large. Even if they are observable to others you may not notice them because of a lack of perspective from seeing your body daily.
Be aware enough of the process to know that it is working because you are doing everything right. Then be patient as the small increments in your routine reach a ‘tipping point’ which sees rapid weight and size reduction.
Start the 31 Ways to Losing weight Walking.
