How to Achieve Your New Years Resolution and Lose Weight by Walking
Did you set a goal to lose weight this year? If so, you are not alone. Millions of Americans set weight loss as a New Years resolution. They go to the gym, try to eat better and take other steps but often within a few weeks old habits come back and the goal is put on the back burner. But you can easily achieve your New Years resolution and lose weight by walking. Here are step by step directions.
Things You Will Need
Good walking shoesStep 1
Decide on how much weight you want to lose and how fast you want to lose it. On average a leisurely stroll (3 mph) of 60 minutes will result in approximately 235 calories burned for a 150 pound woman. A pound of weight is 3600 calories. If you walk every day for an hour you will lose close to 2 pounds a month or 25 pounds a year. If you walk longer or faster you will lose more.Step 2
Fit in walking every day. Though an hour a day of walking sounds like a lot, you can break it up into 4 mini walks of 10 minutes each or 3 walks of 20 minutes each. This is a great way to achieve your New Years resolution and lose weight walking.Step 3
Pump up the fat burning. Wear walking shoes that will help you burn fat quickly. Earth Footwear makes womens walking shoes and mens walking shoes that set the foot at an incline. This helps burn fat 4x faster. Wearing these special shoes throughout the day will increase the fat burn.Step 4
Add in a better quality diet to lose weight even faster. Cut back on junk food and sugars. Add in fruits and veggies, lean protein, whole grains and lots of water.Be consistent and walk on a daily basis to achieve your New Years resolution and lose weight by walking.
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