How long to see results after starting walking a lot?
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Anonymous
| With most everything else being the same? I love my Fitbit and am wondering when my body will start reacting to a constant daily step total of about 12,000+ steps. I realize it will likely be a slooooow process but any ideas? |
Anonymous
| 3.35368 days |
Anonymous
| Why must people be snarky? If you don't have a helpful answer, why post anything? |
Anonymous
It depends on so many things. If I were you, I would pick several different metrics to measure against. Weight and body measurements, fine. But also energy level. Whether stairs come more easily (if doing more stairs is part of your effort to increase steps). How long you can walk at one go before feeling fatigued. How easy it is to knock out those last 500, 1000 or even more steps at the end of the day before you hit your goal. For me, I often have to look back at my stats. I will notice I'm doing more sets of stairs even if I didn't plan to. That I'm making my steps earlier in the day and not having to catch up at the end of the day. That I miss it if I don't get my lunch time walk. Some of these things I notice pretty quickly - I found I was hitting my numbers earlier in the day within about a week. I also found that I wasn't dragging if I had to do a catch up walk of 1000 steps. If you're looking for visual physical changes like lost weight or tighter buttocks, unless you're really out of shape it's going to be a while. Walking is excellent life long exercise but it's definitely on the slow and steady side of weight loss. |
Anonymous
| What are you looking for? Weight loss? Not happening... It's walking, people walk every day, and yet we still have overweight people. |
Anonymous
| 80% is what you eat |
Anonymous
This is some seriously great logic. |
Anonymous
| A frind of mine was pretty heavy. She started walking every night after dinner, and by the end of summer she had lost at least 20 pounds. We are talking about 3 months. |
Anonymous
Wouldn't it make sense that INCREASING the activity you normally do would cause more of a deficit in the calories you'd normally eat? If a person goes from walking a total of 5000 steps per day to 12000, of course it will bring a change. Just slowly. |
Anonymous
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People don't walk 12,000 steps every day. You probably don't hit 3,000.
Good luck OP. Walking is my exercise of choice too. |
Anonymous
| I walk 12000 a day and still find that what I eat rules the day. You would think my legs would be in great shape , but no. |
Anonymous
| When I'm in the 12,000 range on my fitbit, I get an extra ~200 cals to eat on myfitnesspal. AKA - walking all those steps won't do anything unless you're watching what you eat too, OP. |
Anonymous
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Walking can be good exercise and can result in losing weight, but only if you keep your calories in check. You likely aren't burning more than 300-400 calories more than you used to by walking. So it becomes simple math...if one lb. of fat = 3,500 calories, and you are burning an additional 400 calories/day (and not eating more) then in theory you should lose about .8 lbs a week.
Again, this assumes you don't eat more than you normally would. Not a perfect science, but this is how apps like loseit work as well. At the end of the day, you lose weight by using up more calories than you consume. |
Anonymous
| I am on WW plan right now to lose about 25 pounds. I use the 'old' WW plan from 2008-the one before fruit was no points. I use the activity points calculator to figure out how many points I 'earn' for walking. With my current weight I earn about 3-4 points for 60-75 mins of walking. And, using that plan, I lost 5 pounds last week. It works. 20 pounds to go. I am repeating what I did 6 years ago (yes, I gained back some weight) because I know it works. Good luck! |
Anonymous
Was there an unusual situation that caused you to gain back the weight (pregnancy? Accident? etc?) I'm just a bit skeptical that it really "works" if you gained back the weight? I'm not trying to sound snarky, truly. 
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