Do You Have the Walking Blues?!

Do you sometimes have the walking blues? I mean do you put the walking shoes on and head out the door wondering why you are doing this? I mean the progress is slow and exercise is a lot of work!

Well I have some good news for you about persistence and my progress but first for those of you with the blues – here is a song by an artist called Roy Rogers (not the singing cowboy) entitled, “Walking Blues.”

I love the slide guitar! Exercise for weight loss and cardio-vascluar health work. I mean you have to keep up with it. It is easy to get into a plateau when losing weight – making you question your strategy.

What if you plan is not working? Assuming your plan was based on sound science and you are eating less calories than you body needs – you weight loss will still work.

Don’t worry about back sliding so much but when you have wet your whistle (satisfied your craving), jump back on the band wagon and do what you know works. Here is Dr. Oz talking about walking.

Great point about the Amish – a physical labor and no processed foods (my guess) makes for a healthy life style. Walking is a low-impact exercise. I’ve had to use it as one of my main exercises because my knees can only take so much impact while I am still obese.

I have been jogging, hiking up and down hills, walking, and bike riding for my exercise the last couple of week. As one exercise gets hard (or my knees need a break) I switch gears.

I was down to 219 pounds last month. I then gained seven pounds and lost four. A couple of weeks of less exercise and bad eating has been countered by proper diet and exercise. It is kind of funny but if my goal was to gain weight – I’d do that a lot faster!

So if you find your self with the walking blues, don’t indulge yourself too long and get right back on the horse partner!