Burn more calories than you consume to lose weight. Once the diet part is planned, get to stepping. This means 30 minutes a day seven days a week of aerobic work. Vigorous walking exercises are a tolerable, low impact way to accomplish this goal and more importantly to stick with it for a long time. With a few tips in mind it can be even better.

Forget the idea of only three or five days a week, aerobic exercise is something you need perform every day forever.

Once the walking is established do some other activities to increase your physical output. This can include simple things like raking leaves instead of blowing them, wacky things like playing tag with your children, as well as other every day habits such as parking in the furthest space from the store rather than the closest.

Intervals can be added once you’re walking every day. After a short period of walking run, then walk again, then go back to running. Start out running once or twice in a 30 minute walk, then up it to more often until you’re walking 4 minutes then running 1 minute It’s not that hard.

Walking to lose weight can be a whole family activity. Walk the kids to school instead of driving them. Walk to the store. Get out and see the sights. And no, don’t quit on a rainy day. Wear a rain coat and some galoshes.