Walking the neighborhoods this summer is not without risk. You stumble across all sorts of people. Still, there is some value to it. I’ve noticed that if I walk more than 5 miles a day for a couple of weeks that I WILL lose weight.
Which for me is always a goal.
When I don’t walk regularly my weight creeps up. Mister says: Just don’t eat so much! HA! Like it’s really that easy.I know the formula as well as anyone. Eat fewer calories than you burn to lose weight.
And I’ve got a secret formula to make that easier. I don’t eat between meals and I don’t take seconds (most of the time.) Controlling when I eat goes a long way toward controlling how much I eat. But, it’s just not enough. If I don’t walk regularly my metabolism slows to a crawl and I’m not sure it’s possible to eat fewer calories than I’m burning.
Ah, But if I walk 5 miles a day . . .
Walking — especially if I take 3 moderate walks a day — has a power way beyond the calories I’m burning. Most obviously, if I’m walking then I’m not eating. So my trick (when I’m on a roll) is to walk when I’m inclined to snack. Sometimes I end up taking way more than 3 walks!
The thing is that these walks don’t have to be that long. It’s amazing how the miles stack up just walking around the block once every couple of hours.
And on this lovely Sunday in August let’s share our walking experience. Take a camera with you and send me photos of whatever strikes your fancy at katiebird@gmail.com. I’ll post them later this evening.
Walking is something I want to get back to, but I have some weird leg thing going on that I have to go to the dr. about sometime soon, when I’m not either working my a** off, or out of town……..
(Sorry, I’ve been busier than I can tell you the last few months !)
{{Catdog}} I’ve missed you so much! I can’t wait until things slow down for us.
The thing I didn’t expect is that I’d be so crazy busy after quitting my job. I thought I’d have all day long to write….
xxoo
What’s up with this summer? I’ve been swamped too! I haven’t hardly had a moment to blog, etc. But I wanted to comment on your post as I have been working on my new “Mid-Afternoons for Mid-lifers” stretch and tone class with new exercises and researching easy, low impact ones. Walking is low impact and has one other huge benefit: it increases your bone mass in hip bones and spine because it is weight bearing, where most fractures occur that are fatal (for the older folks). So when I get the question “How can I even start an exercise program?” the answer is simple: WALK.
Conda — thanks for stopping by. I’m really disoriented this summer. But, I do my walk everyday so at least that much is good.
I’ll see you soon at your place, I promise!