Day Two: Sorry if my pedometer cracks your windshield!
I swear I am going to throw my pedometer out of the frappin' window. So I work for the Dept. of Health and we promote healthy living *eye rolling*. So I'm a member of our wellness team and one of our winter initiatives is a pedometer loan program....six week program, started the week of Thanksgiving. The leader, if I heard her correctly, stated that the average person walks 10,000 steps per day. BULLCRAP, SKINNY HEIFA!! They must be hyped up on crack or some really great phentermine :) My highest steps has been 6,723 and i was doing some serious walking that day!!...i didn't even ask my daughter to get the remote for me...LOL. So pardon my fat booty if my pedometer flies from my car window and lands directly on your windshield.
Whew, all of that negativity in the above paragraph *shaking my head*. I can see my mom say, "Now, Samantha.....". Bullet point addition:
Get in 10,000 steps at least 2 days this week
Keep pedometer strapped tightly to my belt loop in order not to chunk it out of the window due to temporary insanity
Today's Motivation: More money in my pocket because I haven't visited the vending machine in an entire week. Take that C4 and B12!!! "I gotta dollar, I gotta dollar, I gotta dollar...hey, hey, hey, hey"
Posted By: complacentways
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12/15/2009 09:35
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I was told with the pedometer:
Record your daily steps for week one
At the end of the week calculate your average steps per day
Week 2 aim to do at least 100 steps more than last weeks average every day. (ie if the average was 5200 aim for at least 5300 each day)
Hey girl - I lost most of my weight w/JC, yes. When I got halfway, I started doing meals on my own. Now, I'd say I eat about 20% JC and the rest meals on my own. I followed the program so strictly for so long that it really changed my eating habits.
Ok. I have to chime in here because I started wearing a pedometer 5 years ago during one of those wellness challenges at work.
Our goal: walk 1 million steps in a year!
Excuse me? How the hell is that possible, I wondered? I mean, I did the math! That was 2739 steps per day! I had to walk that many steps PER DAY??!!
Impossible.
Or so I thought. I made it sister and I am still wearing a pedometer every day and logging my steps into a spreadsheet. My goal is to get to 15 million steps this year! I'm pretty sure I'm going to do it! Yay me!
GO US!!
So, keep that pedometer clipped to your waistband and get a moving. Let us know. I want to see reports!!
Ideas: if you work in an office at a desk job get your faxes and printouts at a different printer (further from your desk/office). Go for a walk on your 10 minute breaks and/or lunch. Walk to the vending machine to take inventory, then back to your office LOL!!
I have a desk job and I almost NEVER reach 10,000 steps without making a concerted effort to take even a short walk. I don't think it happens without a little effort. It's almost seven o'clock at night and I'm only at 3405 steps. At seven-thirty I'm going to the gym to make up the difference... running.
It does take effort... Unless you're an RN working the floor, a waitress, or a similar job, you're probably not going to hit 10K without trying.
