Want to Improve Your Health for Free? Start Walking

Jodi Davis

| 2 min read

Happy young couple walking dog in sunny park
I wonder: how would society react if they knew they could have improved health for FREE?
I knew I would get your attention! Yes, improved health can be created by something that won’t cost you a dime. It’s not complex, and it doesn’t need to be. It’s actually extremely uncomplicated: Tie on a pair of athletic shoes a take a 22-minute brisk walk every day.Pretty simple stuff, huh?

Yes, I Really Lost 162 Pounds From Walking Every Day

Walking gave me the weight-loss results and improved health that I had been searching two decades for. I believe that walking actually saved my life. After being overweight for 25 years and reaching a weight of close to 300 pounds, I knew that my heart could not take many more years of the added stress that obesity can create.
As peculiar as this may sound, walking is like my “best friend.” But I will admit that during my morbidly obese years, if I would have just read those words, I would have just rolled my eyes and thought, “Okay, whatever.” Nobody could have ever convinced me that walking could give any type of weight-loss results or improve a person’s health at all, it sounds way too easy.
Maybe that’s our problem? We feel that something can’t possibly work well unless it’s complex? If the process is easy we assume that it will bring failure.
Well, I can tell you that walking didn’t bring ANY form of failure for me! In fact, I have met hundreds of individuals who agree with me and also consider walking as a “best friend!” Are you one of them? I would love to hear your story.
Does it sound almost too good to be true? Just because WALKING is simple doesn’t mean it bring the results you have been searching for. Prove it to yourself today: WALKING WORKS!
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