Walking to Lose Weight-Day 7
Day 7 – Reducing and Burning Calories.
Start from Day 1 in the 31 Ways to Losing Weight Walking.
Walking=Burning calories.
Eating less=Reducing calories.
Losing Weight=Using up more calories than you eat.
I don’t know how many calories your body requires before the food you eat must be stored as fat. You probably don’t either. However additional or varied exercise such as walking to lose weight uses extra calories and affects your metabolism. Muscles burn more calories than fat just to be maintained within the body. So that muscular guy sitting next to you uses more calories just doing nothing! Once you have similar musculature you will too. If you’ve always wanted to burn extra calories just by sitting there, this is the way.
Hopefully your own self interest in walking to lose weight will have kicked any obviously bad eating habits before next week. If not, let this tell you something about your way of thinking about food and find a way to make those changes any way.
Take into account that increased exercise is definitely going to increase drinking so make sure that this is healthy – drinking water or heavily diluted (with water) fresh fruit juice. Avoid sugared soft drinks.
Let’s state the obvious:
1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat regular smaller healthy meals.
3. Cut out sugared drinks. This also means no alcohol.
4. No fried foods.
5. Limit bread. No butter.
6. Find lower calorie alternatives to any food you ‘must have’.
7. Don’t over eat as a reward. Find out what else makes you feel good such as watching a DVD instead.
Develop restraint and good habits. I don’t particularly like donuts, even Krispy Kreme. I have made a point of not eating donuts when others are. This makes it easy for me not to indulge in this food, and I don’t substitute any other food. I am happy to encourage others to make pavlova for dessert, again I don’t particularly like this sweet. When dessert is served I can very easily skip it or have the tiniest slice to be polite.
Walking to lose weight is all about losing weight and trimming your body at the same time as you become healthier (by far), fitter, and in love with life.
