Walking to Lose Weight Tip 3
Tip 3: Success at walking to lose weight requires an appointment: committed time which remains committed to walking no matter what.
I’ve seen it, and done it. When it is time to do your walk, and for some reason it is a little difficult to fit it in right now, you think I don’t have to make a big deal over this, no one else does. I can just move it to later in the day- and later in the day there isn’t quite enough time but you think you’ll do it anyway and then as you leave the house the phone rings. End of weight loss process…unless you have a diary with a red action flag which enables you to recommit to an extended time tomorrow or a real mental acceptance that this is to be a priority from now on.
If you’re saying that this is too difficult, too complicated,too formal or too obsessive, you’re probably not going to lose weight at this time.
Plan when you are able to walk for one hour daily over an extended daily period. Since weight loss requires a lifestyle CHANGE, less exercise and calorie control may be more doable on an everyday basis, but there is always some time when it becomes possible or practical to do one hour of moderate exercise such as a walk or the Wii Fit; but plan for it.
Think of this as one of those times which we all have when we need to fit some scheduled activity into our agenda. Prior to exams, tax time at work, medical tests- we simply adjust our daily lives to accommodate this extra time pressure and because it is a short period with an end to it, we can do it.
This is the attraction of the magic weight loss programs…because we see or like to believe that there is an end to the changes we are asked to make we can accept making them in the first place. Even though a complete return to previously normal eating or activity patterns will just result in a similar problem, the idea of short term behaviour modification is more appealing, and therefore more likely for us to do. Stretching out the behaviour changes, allowing a gradual increase to a peak period which then reverses to a more moderate exercise or diet, is easier to achieve.
Make an appointment to walk: Don’t hesitate, do it now! And always have a backup-alternatives for those occasions such as when it’s raining or you can’t get to the gym. See another way to walk.
