As Gina’s journey got underway, she often turned to the internet for inspiration. And from the beginning, she’s loved the Start TODAY Facebook group, where Al Roker and thousands of others go for walking workouts, healthy meal ideas and expert advice. Best of all, says Gina, “Everyone cheers each other on!”
Turns out, Gina is one of many who have hit on the combo of walking and intermittent fasting. “It’s very popular,” confirms Today fitness contributor Stephanie Mansour, a weight-loss coach who helps create fitness challenges for the group. And many folks do indeed get triple-fat-burning results like those in the recent study. Why? Basically, the biochemical changes triggered by walking and fasting synergize inside us and lead to an explosion of benefits. “The combination can be like magic,” says Mansour.
Superpowers of step counting
Walking is one of the easiest workouts in existence, and it’s one of the most effective for weight loss. Why? Precisely because it’s easy. What many of us don’t realize is that more difficult forms of exercise, while good for building stamina, give our bodies so much to handle that they can’t efficiently convert stored fat to fuel. Instead, hard workouts burn mostly blood sugar. “Go gently, and the difference in fat burning is dramatic,” says Katarina Borer, Ph.D., whose studies at University of Michigan have revealed walking at a pleasant pace more than doubles fat burn compared to going all-out.
And with step counting you don’t have to set aside time to walk or wear special clothes. Just weave more steps into your normal routine. It’s easy-peasy, “so you’re more apt to do it,” notes Mansour. And consistency pays off. In one test, counting steps helped women be so much more consistent, they lost nearly 20 pounds before a group using traditional workouts shed 4 pounds.
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