Burn more calories than you consume to lose weight.

Once the diet part is planned, get to walking. This means 30 minutes a day seven days a week of aerobic work. It can be running on a treadmill, swimming, or even walking to lose weight. Walking is a low impact way to fulfill the exercise goal. Here are some walking tips.

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

But then more can be added. Additional physical work, outside that 30 minutes a day seven days a week, is easy. Park the car further from the store or office, then walk. Instead of gobbling a bagel while riding the elevator up to your floor, enjoy a some fruit while walking up the stairs.

When it's time to rid the yard of leaves use the old fashioned hand rake rather than the leaf blower. Muscle power is activity and that burns calories. If you have kids get involved in their games of tag, or chase. They'll love it and so will your waist line.

Intervals can be added once the walking has been established. 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.

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.

Evan