If you are going to make counting pedometer steps a way of life then you have to apply the usual sort of discipline to it that other important but mundane area of your life (such as cleaning your teeth) attract.
Let me remind you why you might want to make pedometer steps a ritual process:
regular exercise such as walking for weight loss is a standard requirement for modern life when movement is not the natural process it was originally as in pre-technology days;
one way, and the easiest for many, is to simply put on a pedometer every morning and check it regularly throughout the day, to ensure that the target you have set will be met;
take action i.e. walk more, if the target pedometer steps have somehow got away from you;
don’t go to bed until those steps have been met.
Just as with teeth cleaning there are other more occasional procedures such as dentist visiting and flossing etc. but all of them are secondary to the fundamental teeth cleaning.
Having made the decision then do everything you can to ensure it’s success as a weight control method.
Even after extensive use of a pedometer to track my pedometer steps during normal days I still find it more motivating to wear and use one then go without.
Over time you do need to do more than strap on a pedometer but while those pedometer steps are keeping you on track then the extra activities such as weights or yoga can be fine tuning the results you are achieving.
And you definitely achieve results which are pleasing other than weight loss. I want to find another phrase to denote the modern meaning of what was once simple weight loss but now means so much more- healthy, functioning, streamlined, good looking bodies; and in fact may be less about weight loss and more about trimming, strengthening and toning.
