Remember how I said that the average woman takes 5, 500 steps a day, and that's considered sedentary? And how I thought I probably only walked 2, 000 steps a day?
Well, I wasn't far wrong.
My world is very, very small. I rarely venture out of my home, and when I do, I park near the places I need to go.
I set the goal to take 5, 500 steps. I know that's just "sedentary," but I still thought it would be an improvement for me.
By 2:00 p.m. today I'd only taken about 1,500 steps. I began to worry I wouldn't make my 5, 500 goal. I had to run some errands, so I parked far from the doors. By 9:00 p.m. I was still 1,500 steps short of my goal. So I took my dog and walked around the cul de sac, then walked around again.
Now as I write this, my pedometer sits at 5, 535. Yay! I met my goal! But it did take conscious effort to get there.
I realized, while walking around the neighborhood for the second time, that my pedometer is taking me places. It's a very small thing, tracking my steps, but already it got me out of my chair and out of my house.
I'll keep my goal at 5, 500 for a while, maybe for the rest of February. But then I think I'll see where else my pedometer takes me. Because I'm going places. I can feel it.
