Walk A Marathon???

It was in the paper today that if you walk the equivalent of a marathon per week, you can easily drop a couple of stone and keep the weight off.

This is easily the sort of mileage that I used to walk before I took up running, and explains why people even then said 'I was lucky' and that I could always eat anything in site without putting on weight.

It's not a hard target to achieve. It's less than 4 miles a day - at a steady pace this can easily be achieved in an hour. If you have a 10 minute walk each day to the bus or train, and the same to the office, then you are already a good way there. Just add in a lunchtime walk to complete the distance.