10,000 Steps

Many moons ago I purchased a book by Paul McKenna called "I Can Make You Thin". I bought it because I was intrigued by its title and wanted to read it in order to disprove the statement. Thing is, the statement is correct although the title should really be: "I Can Make You Thin By Telling You To Do Common Sense Things". I have a recollection of talking about this on the radio show but I didn't blog it.

In the book Paul McKenna gives 4 simple tips about making changes that will lead to a healthier and slimmer you. The one that struck me was the exercise tips where he was pointing out that walking a bit more makes a big difference. He suggested buying a pedometer, seeing how far you walk and then trying to walk a bit further every day.

In this post I mentioned how I used to walk 10,000 steps a day during the week and now don't so it was with some trepidation that I dug out the pedometer recently. I was interested in seeing whether walking home after work (it takes about 50 mins) would be enough to get the step count up. What I discovered is that it isn't (it takes me to 9000) but also that just having a couple of shorter walks during the day does help and is more manageable.

Over the past 3 weeks of wearing the pedometer again I've been averaging 7000 steps which is pretty good going. I'm looking forward to getting the average up as well as putting the Paul McKenna advice back into practice again.