How to get your pedometer steps up for the day! If it was on my normal route to work then I could learn to play a song. If I look for fun it often comes my way.
The advantages of making walking fun are enormous. I’ve followed this principle for a long time. Yes there are times when discipline and acceptance that you just have to do it are the motivating factors in getting those daily pedometer steps but most of the time I try to make it a game. I love walking as well but the pedometer adds that fun element.
I plan to live a long life. I plan to be active. I am excited about the life opportunities still to come for me.
Yet I’ve lived the weight loss yo-yo and lack of exercise roller coaster enough to know that somethings needed to change for my vision to come fully true.
Redoing my approach to life in incremental ways allows me to have fun, because I’m now building that in, and enjoy the walking for weight loss process at the same time. Pedometer walking and occasionally running, cycling which is new for me, gym classes and social walks make for a lifestyle which has become sustainable.
Having control over your weight is similar to managing your financial affairs: calories used minus calories eaten must leave an energy deficit which is to be “financed” from fat deposits. Pedometer steps are “money” in the bank, calories eaten are withdrawals. If you take a large withdrawal you need to replace the “money” i.e. calories expended.
May 14th, 2010 at 5:16 am
I have never thought about it this way.
May 15th, 2010 at 9:02 am
I have never thought about it this way.