I am walking 1-1/2 hrsday for over a month. I am toning but not losing weight. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

i know everyone raves about walking, but it never did me any good at all when trying to lose weight. it did make me feel good though.

the only things that really helped me lose weight were jogging (about 2-3 miles 3 times week) and weight training. seriously, the weight just melted off with very little dieting at all.

Answer 2

You will not lose any weight by walking. Your body is used to the walking. You need to do something more vigorous to shock your body to make it think "whoa. what was that? I need to get rid of this fat so that it isn't so tiring if this happens again."

I am, guessing that you walk generally the same speed and for the same time/distance. If I ran a 9 minute mile everyday, my body would adjust enough to just run a 9 minute mile. I would need to go outside of my base exercise to shock the body into realizing "I can do a 9 minute mile, but now I need to be more efficient and lighter for this 8 minute mile"

Try lifting some weights, incorporating a little bit of jogging, go swimming, walk up some hills, or anything that is a little more rigorous than walking the same distance everyday.

Hope that helps. I am trying to lose 35 pounds and it is tough

Answer 3

Muscle weighs more than fat, so if you're developing muscle, that could be why the scale doesn't change. Developing muscle is good for you, though, so don't stop walking!

If you need to lose weight, look at your diet and make some gradual changes in it, unless you need to lose a lot of weight. If you do, seek medical advice.

Also look at how fast you're walking. Walk fast enough to break a sweat, but still be able to talk. If you can't talk while you're walking, you're walking too fast.

Don't worry about losing the weight quickly. It's more likely to stay off if you lose gradually. (Unless you're morbidly obese, in which case you should see a doctor who will oversee a more rapid weight loss for the sake of your health.) Good luck!

Answer 4

just keep your self allways doing somthing that keeps you moving around.drink slimfast that gives you vitamins and slims you.also stay out in the sun that will sweet some weight off.diet pills.Dont eat a meal before going to sleep.go to the tanning bed or a sona,or go in a attic in the summer time or hot i know that works,and you dont have to stay up there long and try jogging, it takes more effert than walking.

Answer 5

It sometimes takes a while to see results, everybody is different. Make sure you're drinking LOTS of water and eating healthy. I did the Subway diet and lost over 50 pounds.

Answer 6

Do a slow jog... or walk faster... and longer like 2.5 hrs.... and walk until you get a nice sweat.
Bring a jump rope, if you don't want to walk all the time, switch it up, with jumprope that will definitely make you sweat.

Answer 7

change ur eating habits...n by weight do u mean the body mass or the number in the scale...when u work out u mite gain muscle..muslce weights more dan grease so ur weight my increase or stay the same and still look thiner

Answer 8

you may want to be very careful with your caloric intake . Eat more veggies and fruits , stay away from fatty foods , and gaseous foods.lean more toward legumes, soups , salads with every meal . You may eat a salad for breakfast , it's ok. stay away from salt , pasta's with a lot of butter unless you use substitutes .

Answer 9

you may not be losing weight because you are developing the muscle which means you are gaining muscle mass. muscle weighs more than fat, so you may lose fat instead of pounds. you may also try dietary supplements, or other kinds of exercise. good luck.

Answer 10

Losing weight isn't always a good measure of increasing fitness. There is a brief explanation in the text below.


On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common question amounts to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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