Anglea Woollcombe wrote:
i'm also starting a walking program that i got off the net from a good site.
for the first week you walk days for 10 - 15 mins with a two day rest period
then each week after that u up your times by 5 mins and at the end of each
week you have a set time that you have to walk so for the first week my
target time in total is 60 -75 for the whole week.
not bad to begin with then i'll up it like i said as i get better at it.
hopefully this along with my diet plan will boost my weight loss.

Walking is, of course, better for you than no walking, and it's good for
your heart, but don't expect to see much boost on the scale for short
periods of walking. It takes roughly 35 miles of walking to burn the
calories of one pound of fat. If you walk briskly at about 15 minutes
per mile, that's almost 9 hours walking.

And walking, like any aerobic exercise, only helps while you're doing it.
Quoting from ADIPOSITY 101 (http://www.omen.com/adipos.html)
Several years ago it was widely reported that working out left one
with an "exercise afterglow" for up to 12 hours, during which body
metabolism remained at least slightly elevated. More recent studies
have shown that this effect requires a level of exercise attainable
only by highly trained athletes. Moderate exercise does not increase
the metabolism (BMR) of obese subjects.

You might also look into some weight training. If you add muscle, you
increase the calories that you burn even while resting. The notion that
it would make you bulky or unfeminine is a myth. Women don't bulk up
unless they're taking steroids.

I highly recommend http://www.stumptuous.com/weights.html
for women's weight training.

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