was just luking in here and found your group to be very interesting. i love to walk. have done it for years, but never seem to lose any weight doing it. right now i walk with my dog as he needs the exercise too and i try not to stop so he can sniff as we are out there to get to business. other walks we take where we stroll along i let him do his doggie thing. anyway, how many miles a day do you start off with? one or two? maybe i should walk the dog and then just go for me huh? any suggestions? i am in my 50's and work sitting down all day if that helps you answer me. thanks, jan 🙂
Try walking for 20 minutes, never mind distance yet. Walk fast enough that you can talk to your dog normally, but cannot sing to him. Let him stop before and after your 20 minute walk. If you are able to recover from the fast walk in 5 minutes or so, do it again later in the day. Start keeping track of the distance. You should find it gradually increase as you are able to walk faster and maintain your breath. As your recovery becomes shorter, then you can increase the time.
Rich "Jan in oregon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:25133-404A02A9-1@storefull- 3333.bay.webtv.net... was just luking in here and found your group to be very interesting. i love to walk. have done it for years, but never seem to lose any weight doing it. right now i walk with my dog as he needs the exercise too and i try not to stop so he can sniff as we are out there to get to business. other walks we take where we stroll along i let him do his doggie thing. anyway, how many miles a day do you start off with? one or two? maybe i should walk the dog and then just go for me huh? any suggestions? i am in my 50's and work sitting down all day if that helps you answer me. thanks, jan 🙂
In order to loose weight it is simply making sure that at the end of the week you have 'used' up more calories than you have taken in. That can either be by 'burning' extra calories by exercise (walking) and/or eating fewer.
If you knock off 200 calories a day (a couple of cans of Coke) and walk fast for two miles (extra) a day for another 200+ calories you will loose just a little less than a pound a week. At this rate, at the end of a year, you would have a difficult time lugging the lost fat around in a wheel barrow.
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well eating is not the problem as i eat very healthy. my chemistry is out of whack since going through menopause. thank you so much for this site. it will be very helpful along with what rich said. i am starting today. will let you know how i do. thanks, jan 🙂
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Since you say you've been walking for some time, your body has probably become fairly efficient at that movement and won't burn as many calories as it once did. You need to change something about your workout, and intensity is a good place to start. Try increasing your speed or find a course with hills to up the intensity....you may need to do this without your dog if he can't up his intensity. Also, you may eat healthful foods, but you still need to create a caloric deficit if you're trying to lose weight. Another problem you might be having is the lack of resistance training (at least you didn't mention any). When you do create a caloric deficit, if you aren't doing any resistance training, your body will prefer to shed muscle instead of or along with fat, and since muscle is your "fat burning machinery", you want to keep as much of it as possible, and even build a little more. By participating in a resistance training program, you send your body a message that it needs to keep the muscle it has. Combine this with the fact that as we age we lose some muscle mass, you just don't have the calorie burning capacity you once had. If you need to see what macro- nutrients are in your food, check out the Food Nutrient Database I recently added to my site, and check out the fitness calculators and heat index chart. There's also a new forum you can find advice and support on and add your own questions and progress updates. You'll also find lots of health and fitness tips & articles. topfitonline.comtopfitonline.comOpen ↗
thank you so much!!! i will give this a try. sounds like i can do this without any problems. again thanks!!! jan 🙂
I also am in my 50's, and basically sit at work. (I am in Vancouver, WA) I try to do 4 miles every day. I do it in 2 - 30 minute fast walks. One in the AM, one in the PM. You do have to watch what you eat. Go to lower fat foods, add more veggies and fruits to your mix of foods. The key, no matter what every fad diet says is to burn more calories than you take in. (If you want to lose weight.) The best method is to calculate your calorie level for your desired weight using one of the online calorie calculators (caloriecontrol.comcalcalcs.htmlOpen ↗). Arrange your diet to meet that calorie intake per day on a weekly average. Do the walking to burn more calories, and do some weight lifting to build strength. You will lose weight, achieve your desired weight and create a program you can follow the rest of your life.
