Burn more calories than you consume to lose weight. Once the diet part is planned, get to stepping. This should include seven days a week, 30 minutes a day of aerobic exercise. Walking is a tolerable, low impact way to accomplish this goal and more importantly to stick with it for a long time. Here are some good walking tips.

Walking for 30 minutes a day every day of the week is a great start. In fact, it's much better than the five day, or even three day, plan that many people recommend. 30 minutes of exercise 3-5 times a week just isn't enough. The body needs work every day. That means seven days a week and if walking is the way to make that tolerable every day for the rest of your life, then walk.

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.

After getting accustomed to walking that 30 minutes every day, make some adjustments by adding intervals. {Intervals are short bursts of increased activity sprinkled into a normal routine. Start out by running for 30 seconds every 10 minutes of the walk. Gradually up this to a one minute run every five minutes, which would work like this. You walk for the first four minutes, then run for the fifth, then walk the next four minutes, run the next minute, and so on for the duration of 30 minutes. Keep in mind that a run is not a jog, it's faster, like a sprint. So if you have to work up to run with jog at first|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 really difficult.

Make walking 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.