10,000 (Literal) Steps to Healthier Living

It’s really easy to be lazy when you work from home. I can tell you this first-hand.

Twenty-six steps from my bedroom to the kitchen; 6 steps from bedroom to study room; 29 steps from study room to kitchen; 24 steps from kitchen to bathroom. Do some back and forth, go through the rotation a few times, and that’s my day. I can easily go a whole day walking (or dragging my feet) only 300 steps. That’s sad.

Just how sad is it? The Walking Site (um, yes, there really is a walking site :) recommends 10,000 steps per day. Wow, only 9,700 steps away! I’m pretty sure I’m slowly getting fatter due to my sloth-like behavior.

In efforts to avoid the gut, I’ll be wearing my trusty pedometer to shoot for 10,000 steps per day. Of course I’ll be logging this data online, and we can all see how un-lazy I can become. Who knows?

I can tell you this though. I used to wear this nifty step counter a few months back, and it certainly made me more aware of my laziness. I started walking more and took the long route, around campus, from my office to the car. Sometimes, we just need to see proof to change. As if a pot belly and excessive sweating wasn’t enough.