To think I can lose weight by walking 5 miles a day, Monday to Friday?

[NoNameNoGame]

AIBU?

Mon to Fri walking 5 miles a day.

Watching what I eat but not too strict otherwise I will just cave in. So cutting out bread, potatoes, rice and pasta.

Can I lose weight? I'm looking to lose 2 stone by Sep?

How can anyone survive without bread, rice, pasta or spuds?

Easily. I don’t eat bread, rarely eat potatoes, not wildly keen on pasta but like buckwheat or black rice pasta/noodles, eat a lot of rice.

I never touch pasta or rice. Rarely bread and potatoes. It's easy once you get used to it.

I've been managing ok for the last few weeks. I have home made Cauliflower rice instead of rice and Japanese zero noodles instead of noodles or spaghetti. Also butternut noodles and courgetti are surprisingly filling if you have them with a meat based sauce or tomato n olive oil . The important thing is you need to up your protein and fat so yiur food is filling.

OP I suggest getting a fitbit. Very rewarding to track steps and gives you a very approx calories burned.It really helped me shift a big menopausal weight gain.
It's then easy to see how much less you have to eat when you see what you are burning.
I also have been in a mumsnet fitbit group where we do challenges on fitbit app-races and things and support each other-really very nice to be a part of!

For quick weight loss I've found keto to be a miracle worker - losing a dress size in 3 weeks was a great motivator.

I've now plateaued a bit and finding I'm lacking the energy to exercise much so I'm a bit stuck. Might up my walking if I can but with a toddler and baby in tow I can't get much speed up!

Good luck OP!

@mumsiedarlingrevolta yes I have a Fitbit. It's an Alta so not the latest model.

Limit your calories first off - I did that with no exercise (starting at 80kg) and dropped to 68kg in 4 months. I'm now doing pushups in the morning and sit ups in the evening too.

I just checked my Fitbit data online. Over the last 12 months I’ve walked an average of 4.83 miles every day of the week. Obviously that’s not true as some days I might only manage 2 or 3 miles and others I walk 10 or more but as an average it’s 9 and a bit more miles a week than you are aiming for. I don’t weigh myself but I know I am wearing the same clothes/jeans as I was last year and they fit the same as they did then and the year before that. So from my experience I’d say walking alone won’t give you the results you want, you will need to combine it with healthier eating as well.

The eating/drinking is my downfall. I just love butter and wine too much. But at least the walking and the yoga are stopping me getting any bigger.

I hope you get the results you want OP.

I don’t think rice is in any way fattening. Aside from sumo wrestlers how often do you see fat Japanese people?

I’ve been walking an average of 4 miles a day, and have lost 16 lbs. But that’s combined with portion control and my walking includes hills, the equivalent to 30 flights of stairs.
My smart scale showed no weight loss but picked up muscle mass gain for nearly the first month. Since then I’m loosing about 1lb a week.
If I was walking on flat ground I don’t think I’d see the results I have.

I walk 8-9 miles each day, and my weight slowly crept up because my calorie intake increased.
I’ve lost 1 stone in 7 weeks by:

Doing couch to fiveK - I wasn’t running at all when I started and I’ve run for 25 mins three times in the last week, it’s fab

Eating a very low carb and sugar diet - increasing healthy fats to fill me up

I seriously haven’t felt this good for a long time, for me walking alone wasn’t enough, but I think it depends where you are starting from

It will help but watch your food intake, particular empty or non nutritious calories. I easily walk 5 miles a day - more like 7/8 justbin the day to day but when I up it to 20 miles it made a difference to my weight

Thanks. I'm defo watching my food intake. Only 1 treat meal a week and even then it's cutting out bad stuff if I can. Rest of the time is veg and protein and some fruit, not too much though because of the sugar.

It will help as you are putting yourself into calorie deficit as well.
I found walking helped me to stick to my calories as I didn't want to waste the walking. It will also help tone you up and make you fitter so the weight loss will look better.
If you get a fitbit or similar it helps to see what you are doing and you can count calories with it too.
Because I am overweight, older and not particularly fit, according to my fitbit when I walk the 10k steps in a day I burn over 2500 calories per day, whereas as my sister who is just a bit younger, a lot fitter (she goes Scottish Dancing at least once a week) and is not overweight has to do many more than 10000 steps just to make 2000 calories - which she does regularly with her dancing and doing a lot of her walking on hills.
I don't think Fitbit calories are particularly accurate but the make a good benchmarker as they will record whether you are burning more or ess calories each day.

Because I am overweight, older and not particularly fit, according to my fitbit when I walk the 10k steps in a day I burn over 2500 calories per day

2500 calories a day seems an awful lot.

Lifted from Fitbit's web site..

Completing an extra 10,000 steps each day typically burns about 2000 to 3500 extra calories each week

Because I am overweight, older and not particularly fit, according to my fitbit when I walk the 10k steps in a day I burn over 2500 calories per day

If you're 'walking' it at olympic 800m pace, and you weight about 20 stone, then maybe.

I'm a 13st man and all the metrics suggest I burn around 90 calories per kilometre (so maybe 140/mile) at a decent running pace. Walking burns around half running (depending on pace) so assuming 10000 steps equates to 10k, you would be looking at burning around 400-500 calories for your 10000 steps.

This is why exercise, whilst being great for you, is a rubbish way to lose weight. People massively overestimate how much fat they've burned off and then go and reward themselves with a cream cake.

Completing an extra 10,000 steps each day typically burns about 2000 to 3500 extra calories each week

Bear in mind that this isn't just completing 10000 steps, it's an extra 10000 steps above what a normal person (whatever that is) could be expected to do.