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aaaaaaah?

please...i'm just transfixed; WHY the pedometer ?

peace out
aB$h



My doctor wants me to lose weight and this is proving to be almost but not quite impossible. He wanted me to walk more often etc. He had been keeping on at me over a long period of time over the issue.

Anyway, I have been wearing the pedometer to see how far I am walking during the day. I do not wear it all the time, and sometimes the count is definitely not accurate. However, it goes me an idea of activity. The aim is over 7500 steps per day. Every step over 7500 is in fact a bonus. If I am wearing the pedometer I am making the extra effort to get above the 7500. Of course getting over 10000 steps is a bigger aim, but with my feet hurting a lot I compromised for the lower number (I should say I bargained my doctor down to 7500). He does ask me how it is going and he keeps an eye on my progress.

Even if I do not attain this every day, I am seeing the benefits from making the effort. My leg muscles are starting to firm again. This has to be a good benefit. When I am working my job tends to be sendentary and to be frank I do not get enough exercise when I am working. I have measured the steps and when I am working with a martinet who expects me to be sitting at the desk and calling people to ask them to pay their accounts, and to have done more than 60-80 calls in a day, then I cannot get sufficient exercise. Even if I am eating less, if I am not getting the exercise then I cannot lose weight.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life