›› Walking And Weight Loss
I have been on a
number of diet and exercise programs over the years and I have achieved
the most success through a common everyday activity. Walking and weight
loss go hand-in-hand. It may seem too simple to be true, but I have
more success losing weight and keeping weight off through a walking
program than I do on a structured exercise program. I have lost more
through a walking program than through dieting as well.
I discovered the walking and weight loss connection while I was a
student in college. Most freshman college students gain between twenty
and thirty pounds in their first year at school. For the first time in
many students’ lives, they have to make their own decisions
about eating and exercise. Many students’ walking program
consists of walking from the dormitory to the classroom and back.
I was one of the students who had no real walking program. I
didn’t make the connection between walking and weight loss
right away. I wound up gaining twenty-five pounds in the first semester
of college, but I didn’t realize that I needed to connect
walking and weight loss until I tried dieting.
Before I started a walking program in school, the idea of walking and
weight loss being so closely tied together did not occur to me.
Instead, I tried changing my diet. I ate salads at nearly every meal. I
had no breakfast and I did not really have a whole meal until the
evening. I probably only took in about nine hundred calories each day,
but I did not see very good results. I had to think back to a time when
I was fit to make the walking and weight loss connection.
I was a heavy student in high school and I dieted a lot. One diet was
very successful for me during the end of my high school career. I was
involved in an after school program that I attended every day. Since I
could not ride the bus home from school, I simply walked the two mile
commute home five days a week. I did not consider this an actual
walking program, but it really was. The only differences between my
lifestyle in high school and in college were that I ate more and I
walked almost every day.
Once I made the walking and weight loss connection, the rest was easy.
I just started a simple walking program that consisted of taking a
relaxing walk at least three times each week. I did not really worry
about dieting, but I made sure to eat breakfast and to eat small meals
throughout the day. I also avoided eating after eight o’clock
in the evening. Within a few weeks, I found myself proving the walking
and weight loss connection. I lost the twenty five pounds.
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