@soapsuds wrote:
“avoid meals before two hours of exercise”. Is this an error? If so what should it read? If not, please explain because I cannot understand its meaning.
It is hard to explain something that is completely disconnected from the context. Are you getting this advice when doing something specific or did you hear it as a general statement. How does this apply to walking 5 miles each day for weight loss?
When you eat, and what you eat has little to do with weight loss, it is more about how much you eat from a calorie perspective and how much you move to build up calorie consumption. 5 miles of walking is between 10k and 12.5k steps for most people and can add about 100 to 200 calories of burn per day. If you eat at your weight goal calorie intake, 100 to 200 calories burned per day over that yields about 1/2 lb of weight lost per week. Most people won't notice this for several weeks. If you adjust your calorie intake to 250 to 300 calories under your current weight would require, then you will burn about 1lb off per week (this will be somewhat fluid over time, you are looking for long term trends not day to day trends).
A person 40 to 100 lbs over weight, can lose up to 2lb of weight per week for a while safely, at some point you need to cut back to 1.5 lbs then to 1lb. But it is all about calorie delta.
So again, walking will not promote weight loss, the only thing that will promote weight loss is a calorie deficit, but walking can be a good way to increase your calorie deficit to improve weight loss without adding a lot of stress from running or other workout options.
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