Is walking ten miles a day too much?!

Is walking ten miles a day too much?

I jumped right onto the fitness bandwagon eight weeks ago, I Immediately started walking 5 miles a day. Within one month I was walking ten. I'm a female in my 40's, Height 5 ft 0. Weight 105. I have 15 lbs to go to reach my ideal weight for my small frame, 90 lbs. My daily walk lasts approximately 3 hours. I don't miss a day, unless it rains. I'm also drinking six 20 ounce bottles of water a day. Eating 1500 calories a day, and burning off approximately 1000 calories from the walking. I am writing down everything I eat in a food journal, as well as the nutrients in everything I eat. I've cut out bread completely. But I've only lost 12 lbs in eight weeks, which is a little discouraging, considering all the walking I'm doing. I can't figure out why this time I'm losing this weight so slowly. Am I trying to hard or what?! Or maybe it's because I'm ten years older than I was the last time I did this!? Maybe I should take a day or two off a week from my walking?

Taking 2 days off a week is a great idea, it gives your body a change to rest and repair to prevent injury. Make sure you are wearing new, good sneakers meant for walking. Since you are in the ideal weight range for your height, it makes sense that it is taking your body a while to lose the weight. But you do know that getting down to 90 pounds would make you quite underweight? 90 lbs. for a 5' person is a BMI of 17.6 (a healthy BMI is 18.5 or more... 95 lbs. for you).

Your body might be going into starvation mode and holding onto every calorie you put into your body because it knows that it will need it. Eating 1500 calories and burning 1000 means that you are only leaving your body with 500 calories for basic bodily functioning plus any other activity you get.

Anywayy what I am trying to say is thattt when your body hits an ideal weight for itself, it likes to stay there and its hard to budge. Losing a pound a week is a good goal to aim for, and can easily be done with LESS walking.