Walk Hard, Get Skinny- Why Walking Melts the Pounds Away
Naweko San-Joyz
December 19, 2007
Gym owners long for January. That is the month when overweight folks swear, “This is the year” they’ll lose that extra 20 pounds. Meanwhile, gym owners bet against the likelihood of those dieting dreams coming to fruition. And so, around mid-February, the “crash-dieting” crowd at the gym dissipates while those folks who found some reason to keep regularly going to the gym see results.
You do not need a gym membership to reach your weight loss goals. All you need is one good reason to move your body. Then, just start walking and eventually the pounds will glide off your gut.
The proof: Back in 2006, researchers asked a few overweight folks to walk a measly extra 2000 steps each day. Somewhere between parking their cars at the far side of the Wal-Mart parking lot, taking the stairs, and actually walking to cart-return instead of leaving the cart in the parking space, these people burned between an extra 300 to 1000 calories a day. (Please think about this the next time you are debating about where to leave your shopping cart.)
Meanwhile, these folks did not eat more food, or “reward” themselves with junk food for having walked those extra 2000 steps. Ultimately, these promenading guinea pigs actually lost weight without thinking about it.
You need to roughly burn 3500 calories (or create a 3500 calorie deficit) to lose one pound of fat. By mindlessly walking an extra 2000 steps per day, you could lose one to two pounds of fat, not just weight, but cottage-cheese-cellulite-butt fat, each week.
Start now. Walk an extra mile or two each day. Forget about saying, “I don’t have the time”. Walk your dog, walk to the grocery store, walk to the park, walk to take your shopping cart back where it belongs, walk along the beach or lake, walk when you are worried, and walk when you are staring into the refrigerator trying to figure out what to stuff your face with next. Just walk.
Source:
Koulouri, A et al. The effect of advice to walk 2000 extra steps daily on food intake. Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics; August 2006, vol 19, no 4, pp 263-266.
You do not need a gym membership to reach your weight loss goals. All you need is one good reason to move your body. Then, just start walking and eventually the pounds will glide off your gut.
The proof: Back in 2006, researchers asked a few overweight folks to walk a measly extra 2000 steps each day. Somewhere between parking their cars at the far side of the Wal-Mart parking lot, taking the stairs, and actually walking to cart-return instead of leaving the cart in the parking space, these people burned between an extra 300 to 1000 calories a day. (Please think about this the next time you are debating about where to leave your shopping cart.)
Meanwhile, these folks did not eat more food, or “reward” themselves with junk food for having walked those extra 2000 steps. Ultimately, these promenading guinea pigs actually lost weight without thinking about it.
You need to roughly burn 3500 calories (or create a 3500 calorie deficit) to lose one pound of fat. By mindlessly walking an extra 2000 steps per day, you could lose one to two pounds of fat, not just weight, but cottage-cheese-cellulite-butt fat, each week.
Start now. Walk an extra mile or two each day. Forget about saying, “I don’t have the time”. Walk your dog, walk to the grocery store, walk to the park, walk to take your shopping cart back where it belongs, walk along the beach or lake, walk when you are worried, and walk when you are staring into the refrigerator trying to figure out what to stuff your face with next. Just walk.
Source:
Koulouri, A et al. The effect of advice to walk 2000 extra steps daily on food intake. Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics; August 2006, vol 19, no 4, pp 263-266.
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