Walk Off Pounds - How to Shed Pounds and Inches in As Little As 7 Days

They say that each new journey in life begins with one small step and the same can certainly be said of losing weight. All you need to do to start shedding the pounds is to start moving. The easiest way to get your body in motion is to start walking. Even if you are a hundred pounds or more overweight just walking around the block can start you on the road to a fitness plan. Fitness experts say that just walking one hour a day can keep you fit and trim for life.

Walking to lose weight is also one of the cheapest and safest ways to exercise. You don't need to wear special clothes or to splurge on a pricey gym membership. Just take a long walk every day.

You can lose weight by just strolling. But that approach takes a lot longer than if you walk with some vigor and intensity in your step. Walk fast and try to get your heart rate up. The faster your heart is pumping the faster you will develop fat-burning muscle and the more weight you will lose.

You can lose at least one pound a week by walking at a moderate pace every day for at least half an hour to an hour every week. Also when you walk you will be cutting your chances of developing stress-related disorders like anxiety and depression. Walking every day can also help reduce your risk of cancer, stroke, osteoporosis (bone loss), and heart disease.

Weight loss is all about taking in fewer calories than you expend. Losing a pound of fat means burning 3,500 calories.  In order to lose that one pound of weight a week you will need to burn off 3,500 more calories than you consumed for that entire week.

Yet another principle to keep in mind when it comes to walking your weight off is that the length of time that you spend out walking does not matter as much as the amount of distance covered during your walk. The faster you walk the more calories you will burn per mile or kilometer. So if you want to lose two pounds a week you might have to walk one and half to two hours a week at a moderate pace to reach your goal.  To lose more than that, walk three or four hours a week.

There is also what fitness experts call the optimal fat-burning pace, or the determined pace. A determined pace is a good walking pace. This means that you are not ambling along but instead walking so that you are breathing a little harder than usual. A psychological trick for finding this fat burning pace is to pretend that you are late for an important meeting while you are walking. 

You do not have to spend your entire walk moving at the optimal determined pace. You can almost treat it like interval training by alternating faster paced walking with ambling. Periodically getting your heart rate up in this manner is very good for you, not stressful and encourages weight loss. 

Try and get your body's heart rate up for as many minutes as you can. Usually your body lets you know when it is time to break out of the faster optimal pace and lapse back into a stroll for a while.

Walking every day can also help boost your immune system. However, you should be careful if you have a disease where raising the immune system's capabilities is not a good idea, or if you are recovering from a major illness. Make sure you consult a doctor before you begin any kind of exercise program--including a plan to walk your weight off, especially if you are recovering from illness.

Walking is one exercise that most of us can do. And it may just come in handy in these last days. For as Brother Yahya keeps reminding us, once Mystery Babylon moves closer to its complete collapse, the Father might require us Hebrew Israelites to "hike" a bit before we reach or find a place of refuge!

Shalom Ysrayl,