Walking To Lose Weight

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As you know with walking to lose weight the emphasis is on moderating your eating to ensure the calories consumed are less than your calories burned for any one day. This will automatically result in a weight loss and it follows that the bigger the difference between consumption and energy expenditure the more weight lost.

Walking to lose weight acts as a focus for your continued calorie burning and as long as your eating is under control then it is the important part of the equation. So with continued moderate calorie consumption, weight loss is determined by the amount of exercise done. Balance is required as increased exercise will most likely require increased consumption and definitely more liquids, however eating increases should be minimal.

Psychologically there are better times for weight loss and it might be best to start your walking to lose weight and diet control during these times. In other words do not start a diet or a major exercise kick the same day as you start a new job. However if your new job is exciting and active you may take advantage of it by limiting your eating to the set times and walking as much as possible to get to know the areas best spots and a few good options for purchasing your food.

Some weight loss tips for long-term low calorie eating:

1. Prepare!

Decide ahead of time how you will handle certain situations. Walking to lose weight and moderating  your diet is a lifestyle change because for most people who wish to lose over 10 lbs the way to lose and then keep it off is to incorporate walking and conservative eating into your ongoing lifestyle. That means willpower is not going to be reliable enough but an “I always…” will. Create a habit which will work for you. E.g. Make a habit of always ordering salad (dressing on the side) with a cafe/take away meal instead of fries (or chips). Don’t think about it, just do it. To increase the likelihood of this being possible to keep to, make fries an at-home-only option, say once a week, and use the frozen ‘lite’ versions or prepare no-fat oven baked, and always cook a moderate portion.

2. Reduce the Sweetness Habit

Use water, teas and diet drinks with as little sweetness as you can be comfortable with. Sugar substitutes particularly in drinks can cut down calories dramatically but if you keep the sweetness level high, your taste buds will be used to (a habit) this and resist lower sugar content drinks and other normally sweetened foods.

Put in a difficult situation of choosing between a highly sugared drink or an unsweetened drink many lovers of sweet drinks, even knowing the calorie differences, will choose the sugared drinks. On many occasions as a ‘diet’ soda drinker, you will find yourself without a diet drink option at a party or lunch provided by someone else. Learn to accept the unsugared drinks on these occasions.

Another example here is that a small glass of dry white wine is relatively low in calories. Sweet wines or cocktails are often very high in calories. Choosing the dry wine at a party would be a better choice. If necessary, accept the dry wine and add a sugar substitute tablet to sweeten it to the point where you can drink it. Do this discretely as wine buffs can be offended by this. However your health is more important to you than someone else’s preferences.

Walking for weight loss is a lifestyle which becomes a habit and reinforces itself very happily over time. Develop your own way of making it a successful lifestyle for you.

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