Walking Off Weight
Walking is often recommended as part of a weight loss program. Find out how far, how fast, and how often you should walk as part of a weight management program. Learn how to burn fat and eat better.
How to Walk for Weight Control
How far, how fast, and how often you should walk for weight control.
How far, how fast, and how often you should walk for weight control.
Walk of Life 10-Week Program
Get fit, lose fat, feel great with this free 70-day program to help you walk for weight management. Each day has a walking lesson, walking assignment, nutrition tip, healthy recipe, and motivation
Get fit, lose fat, feel great with this free 70-day program to help you walk for weight management. Each day has a walking lesson, walking assignment, nutrition tip, healthy recipe, and motivation
Am I Walking Enough to Lose Weight?
Are you walking enough to lose weight walking? The recommendation for walking off weight is to walk an hour a day most days of the week at a moderate pace.
Are you walking enough to lose weight walking? The recommendation for walking off weight is to walk an hour a day most days of the week at a moderate pace.
Pedometer Walking and Step Counting for Weight Loss
A pedometer is a great motivator to get in extra steps each day towards a goal of 10,000 steps. This helps burn the extra calories and can aid in weight loss.
A pedometer is a great motivator to get in extra steps each day towards a goal of 10,000 steps. This helps burn the extra calories and can aid in weight loss.
Getting Off the Weight Loss Plateau
Is your scale stuck after the first few pounds? What walkers can do to overcome the weight loss plateau.
Is your scale stuck after the first few pounds? What walkers can do to overcome the weight loss plateau.
Weight Loss Toolbox
Quick guide to tools that can help you with your weight control efforts. Activity calorie calculators, basal metabolic rate calculators, nutrition analysis, diet planning and more.
Quick guide to tools that can help you with your weight control efforts. Activity calorie calculators, basal metabolic rate calculators, nutrition analysis, diet planning and more.
Am I Fat? Assess Your Weight and Calories Burned
Are you fat? Our calculators can help you determine whether you are at a good body weight, and help you maintain or achieve a healthy activity level and body weight.
Are you fat? Our calculators can help you determine whether you are at a good body weight, and help you maintain or achieve a healthy activity level and body weight.
Slow Walking Burns More Calories, Easier on Joints
Is slow walking any good? Yes, researchers say walking slow burns more calories per mile and is easier on the joints.
Is slow walking any good? Yes, researchers say walking slow burns more calories per mile and is easier on the joints.
Walking Fit, Fat, or Fast
New weight guidelines spotlight the BMI. Can you be both fit and fat? What walking benefits are there in walking fast?
New weight guidelines spotlight the BMI. Can you be both fit and fat? What walking benefits are there in walking fast?
The Step Diet Book Review
The Step Diet book gives guidelines to lose weight by increasing your activity by use of a pedometer or step counter and decreasing the amount you eat.
The Step Diet book gives guidelines to lose weight by increasing your activity by use of a pedometer or step counter and decreasing the amount you eat.
South Beach Diet Diary - Does It Work for Walkers?
Your editor used the South Beach Diet to take off pounds and inches. See how she fit this modified carb/modified fat diet into an endurance walking lifestyle.
Your editor used the South Beach Diet to take off pounds and inches. See how she fit this modified carb/modified fat diet into an endurance walking lifestyle.
10 Tips for Weight Loss Success
10 tips for weight loss success including easy swaps to help you lose weight without hunger.
10 tips for weight loss success including easy swaps to help you lose weight without hunger.
Step Up Your Walking Workout
Step by step, you can improve your walking routine so you'll burn more calories and exercise more efficiently. Here's how!
Step by step, you can improve your walking routine so you'll burn more calories and exercise more efficiently. Here's how!
Family Weight Loss Recipe: 2000 Steps and 2 Bowls of Cereal
Adding 2000 steps a day and two bowls of whole grain cereal helped overweight girls and their moms stop weight gain and begin weight loss in a research project by obesity researcher James O. Hill.
Adding 2000 steps a day and two bowls of whole grain cereal helped overweight girls and their moms stop weight gain and begin weight loss in a research project by obesity researcher James O. Hill.
Before You Buy a Body Fat Monitor
Weight alone doesn't tell how your diet and exercise are working. You could be getting leaner, thinner, and healthier without the scale moving. A body fat monitor tells the real story. How to choose one and reviews of several models.
Weight alone doesn't tell how your diet and exercise are working. You could be getting leaner, thinner, and healthier without the scale moving. A body fat monitor tells the real story. How to choose one and reviews of several models.
Lose 14 Pounds a Year Walking Your Dog
Researchers found an average weight loss of 14 pounds per year for those who walked their dogs for 20 minutes a day.
Researchers found an average weight loss of 14 pounds per year for those who walked their dogs for 20 minutes a day.
Diets Don't Work
Diets have a poor record of producing permanent weight loss. What does it take to lose weight and keep it off with lifestyle weight management?
Diets have a poor record of producing permanent weight loss. What does it take to lose weight and keep it off with lifestyle weight management?
What We Think Is Making Us Fat - Is It Really Inactivity?
It is inactivity or eating too much which is causing the soaring obesity rate? A vast majority of people in an April, 2004, Harris Interactive poll believe that lack of exercise is the biggest contributor to rising rates of obesity, versus saying it is due to eating too much.
It is inactivity or eating too much which is causing the soaring obesity rate? A vast majority of people in an April, 2004, Harris Interactive poll believe that lack of exercise is the biggest contributor to rising rates of obesity, versus saying it is due to eating too much.
Walking 30 Minutes a Day Keeps Fat Away
The minimum daily requirement of exercise to prevent weight gain is 30 minutes a day of walking, or 12 miles a week of walking or running. A study of sedentary, overweight men and women (aged 40-65 years) showed they lost body fat and weight when they walked or ran 12 miles a week during an 8-month study, without changing their diet.
The minimum daily requirement of exercise to prevent weight gain is 30 minutes a day of walking, or 12 miles a week of walking or running. A study of sedentary, overweight men and women (aged 40-65 years) showed they lost body fat and weight when they walked or ran 12 miles a week during an 8-month study, without changing their diet.
There's No Such Thing as Cheating
Healthy eating philosophy from personal trainer Chad Tackett, brought to you by your About Guide.
Healthy eating philosophy from personal trainer Chad Tackett, brought to you by your About Guide.
Fat for the Holidays?
Increase the walking and improve your nutrition to keep away holiday pounds.
Increase the walking and improve your nutrition to keep away holiday pounds.
Drinking More Water Burns a Few More Calories
Does drinking more water really help dieting? A small study says it may help you burn a few more calories each day. How many? About 50 calories per liter or quart of water. About 25 calories per water bottle-full of water. Mind you, that's only 5 M&Ms - plain, not peanut.
Does drinking more water really help dieting? A small study says it may help you burn a few more calories each day. How many? About 50 calories per liter or quart of water. About 25 calories per water bottle-full of water. Mind you, that's only 5 M&Ms - plain, not peanut.
Fit and Fat? Research Says Exercise Alone Doesn't Fully Offset Risks of Being Overweight
The National Nurse's Health Study found in Dec., 2004 that exercise reduces health risks, but does not fully offset the risks increased by being overweight and obese.
The National Nurse's Health Study found in Dec., 2004 that exercise reduces health risks, but does not fully offset the risks increased by being overweight and obese.
Fat March
Fat March is an ABC-TV reality show that challenges 12 obese people to walk from Boston to Washington DC in 10 weeks.
Fat March is an ABC-TV reality show that challenges 12 obese people to walk from Boston to Washington DC in 10 weeks.
Exercising Too Much
Sometimes, women and girls can exercise too much, which often leads to a host of health issues for girls and women. These are the signs that you may be exercising too much.
Sometimes, women and girls can exercise too much, which often leads to a host of health issues for girls and women. These are the signs that you may be exercising too much.