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Originally Posted by Jinn
I am a relatively sedentary computer worker and prior to now walked ~600 feet a day.. between house and car, car and work and maybe around the building to the bathrooms. Will this jump to 2mi/day slowly wittle down my weight if I keep my diet relatively the same? I haven't seen any difference yet but I'm wondering if I keep it up if I can get similar results (down 10 lbs) as I did jogging 30 mins a day in the gym before. It takes me about 25 mins to walk to the 2 miles, so the pace is considerably slower..
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If all things stay the same, you will lose weight, but it might not be very much. There is a huge difference between walking for 25 minutes (in two intervals) and jogging for 30 minutes (in one interval). The two biggest factors are intensity and recovery. You will burn more calories overall with the jogging than you will with the walking by a long shot.
But the walking is a good thing. I'd do both. Consider jogging three times a week instead of every day, and do the walk every day.
You'll be lucky to burn 200 calories a day with that 2 mile walk. You need to burn 3,500 calories to lose a pound of fat. So we're talking about losing maybe 2 pounds per month if you're lucky.
Burning fat, as Snowy mentioned, has more factors involved. Building muscle helps, as does cleaning up your diet. Balance out your macronutrients, and try to eat a reasonable number of calories. Don't be afraid of fat and carbs. Balance your diet. If you calculate how much you're eating, and then see what you should be eating based on your weight, you might find that you can cut out 500 calories simply by eliminating "empty calories." That's up to a pound per week in fat loss by cutting out sugar. It's easy to eat 500 calories worth of sugar. Too damn easy.
Anyway, sorry for the rant.
Bottom line: diet and exercise: intensity, frequency, duration—clean up your diet, balance, cut out the crap.