Exceedingly Mundane

I was reading in the Jackson paper yesterday where they quoted this article from the Washington Post entitled “Women Wearing Pedometers Walk More”.

I know it’s true for me. I find that if I wear my pedometer during the day, it’s a physical reminder there on my hip (usually clipped to my pants or shorts), that I need to get up, move around, walk around while I’m talking on the phone, etc and not sit so much during the day and be sedentary. I shoot for 10,000 steps a day, and always easily reach my goal if I 1) go shopping or 2) go for 1 or 2 walks a day with Tim. Our 2 mile trek around the subdivision is usually good for a ballpark step count of about 4,900 steps. So that’s half my daily goal right there. I hit a new all-time high two days ago, when we walked twice (4 miles) and I did the weekly shopping. I logged over 20,000 steps that day, and I was very proud. 🙂

Anyway, just a reminder – get up out of the computer chair and move!