Reasons why walking is the king of fat loss

I have been doing walking for the last three years. Every day that I ever stepped out to walk I never regretted.

It started as a habit I would do to just cool off. It turned out that it has a lot of benefits.

I never knew of these benefits. Just walking on my lunch break at work helped me come back fresh. I didn’t know how until recently.

Here is what I have learnt of and hope it helps you too to start walking.

I have been doing walks in nature. I would just wake up and find the nearest place where there are trees. Fortunately for me where I live, there are some places like near the rivers, rich guy places where I can just go for a walk.

I turns out that I was increasing my attention and memory by 20% according to a research from the University of Michigan. The research said that when people took a walk, specifically in nature, they showed a 20% increase in attention and memory directly following the walk.

My work is in IT and therefore when I came back from the walk, I would feel fresh. Mind you, this is in the afternoon when everybody is dizzy. I would continue with my coding or IT support like a guy that had just woken up.

It was basically my cheat sheet to increasing my work output and keeping sane.

Also during the walk, I was able to get the Vitamin D in from the sun. My work didn’t allow me to get any sunlight. Considering I went to work early at 7:30 AM, and would come back home at 5 PM, that meant that all the time that I would have used to get sunlight is gone. I had to create the time.

My body weight also begun to shade off. I have always heard that to lose weight you have to go to the gym. I wasn’t a fun of the gym and motivated enough to be going to the gym daily. So, I walked, fasted and ate healthy.

Even though my body weight didn’t begin to shade of when I started walking, combining it with one meal a day and only eating healthy diets did the work. I begun skipping breakfast which slowly turned to skipping lunch. My first meal would be at 5 PM.

This means that I had avoided eating sugar and my body just had to find a way to make its own energy for me to function. From research, it goes to the fat reserves where it eats the fat that is stored in my body.

True to it, by the first 3 months, I was feeling a lot lighter. By 6 months, my mother and sister had begun noticing my progress.

By the 9th month, my coworkers were like “is this guy sick or what” because of the weight I had shade off. I had not told anyone except for my family who saw me do it.

I didn’t mind the silent judgement and continued my journey to weight loss.

It is now 2 years in. I am at my dream body weight and still shading. I want to get shredded now. I started going to the gym which is a talk for another day.

Walking also helps the heart. Your heart health is dramatically better because as you are walking, your heart is pumping in a nice relaxed manner circulating that oxygen-rich blood throughout all of your tissues.

I wouldn’t say that walking healed my blood pressure issue but since I started walking, I haven’t had any pain on my left side of my chest.

And we know that when your tissues are getting vital oxygen and vital nutrients, they stay younger. They stay healthier. It removes more metabolic wastes. We have our blood circulation but we also have these vessels in our body called lymphatic vessels that run near our blood vessels.

And what lymph vessels do is, they carry your immune system and they remove a lot of cellular junk and get it out of those tissues and recirculate it throughout the body.

So walking gives you this heart benefit. It also boosts your immune system through those lymphatics and also, a 1 hour 30 minute walk can boost your metabolism for up to 30 hours afterwards.

Walking also enabled me to exercise most of my muscles. I didn’t have to go to the gym. Saved myself some membership there for a while.

From the science I learnt, walking is moving some of the largest muscles in our body: our glutes, our quads, our hamstrings.

And when we move these muscles, something miraculous happens. It doesn’t just do healthy things for us. The simple contraction of this muscles sucks glucose out of the bloodstream without insulin even being required.

Meaning, that is giving the Pancreas a break from having to pump out insulin while the cells in your legs are sucking glucose out of the bloodstream. That same glucose that is floating around the blood stream potentially causing damage, because it is elevated.

So, just knowing that it sucks glucose out of my bloodstream gets me excited. Every time I walk I just think of that and walk even some more.

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I have always preferred walking to running due to my joints. Running just beats up my knees. You would argue that if you go out for a run, and you run for 60 minutes, you are going to burn more calories and ultimately burn more fat than you did walking for 60 minutes.

And that is true. But as a percentage, walking is going to burn more fat as a percentage which is definitely going to count for something huge, because you can walk for a long period of time.

So, that means that the longer that you walk at a low intensity, the more fat you are utilizing and less carbohydrates and other fuel that you are utilizing.

Meaning, if you have the time to walk, and just casually walk, you are going to burn a lot of fat and only fat, and not break up nearly as much muscle.

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