I've recently upgraded my phone from the S3 to the S5 and It came with this fitness app with included a pedometer. I've tried these before but they've been notoriously inaccurate and my general sedentary lifestyle means that I've got very little use for one. The app pointed out that the daily goal for the average person should be 10,000 steps a day. This doesn't seem like that much but when I used it for a day I realised how little I actually walk or even move. I clocked around 3,200 steps and this was on a good day, a day I actually went outside.
This lifestyle is incredibly dangerous and I've known for a while things need to change. It's so hard when everything I need is at home and I happen to live in a rather deprived area with literally nothing to do. When I work it's at home, when I go shopping I'm often with someone else and they're driving. The only reason I have to go out is to socialize but being an introvert, this isn't something I do regularly either. My mother recently got a dog, a pug named Winston which is pretty ideal for getting out of the house, although he doesn't fair too well at longer walks.
The point of this is that I needed a reason to go outside, some kind of goal. I couldn't just go outside and walk aimlessly about. The S fitness app pretty much provided me with a goal and an easy way to track and obtain it. I do casually go for walks but the length varies because again there's no purpose other than to get me out of the house and some exercise.
Since I can remember I've been overweight, I've never quite been severely overweight to the point where it impacted me physically but it has always bothered me and made me very self concious which only makes me more of an introvert. On my list of goals, losing weight is always the top one. I know why I'm overweight, it isn't some big mystery, I eat too much unhealthy food and don't exercise enough.
Just over a year ago I weighed about 294 pounds which is a lot, especially when you factor in that my height is around 5,9. At this point I stopped drinking sugary drinks, I cut them out completely and started to drink only water, not changing my diet or exercise I lost about 42 pounds. When I reached around 250 pounds I've started to sit at that weight, loosing and gaining around 10 pounds. So the next step is to increase the amount of exercise I get.
Yesterday I completed the 10,000 steps without much of a problem. It involved me going for a long walk which was like a circle around my town and then back home. This ended up being about 8,000 so I took the dog for a walk as well which pushed it over. Seeing the goal complete on my phone seems so trivial but it really did make me feel great. So I figured I might continue doing this every day for a a few months and see how it affects my weight. I'm going to make a post every Tuesday with showing the progress.
The point of making posts about this is to hopefully help others who might be looking for something to spark some interest into going for walks. That's it for week 0, thanks for reading.
This lifestyle is incredibly dangerous and I've known for a while things need to change. It's so hard when everything I need is at home and I happen to live in a rather deprived area with literally nothing to do. When I work it's at home, when I go shopping I'm often with someone else and they're driving. The only reason I have to go out is to socialize but being an introvert, this isn't something I do regularly either. My mother recently got a dog, a pug named Winston which is pretty ideal for getting out of the house, although he doesn't fair too well at longer walks.The point of this is that I needed a reason to go outside, some kind of goal. I couldn't just go outside and walk aimlessly about. The S fitness app pretty much provided me with a goal and an easy way to track and obtain it. I do casually go for walks but the length varies because again there's no purpose other than to get me out of the house and some exercise.
Since I can remember I've been overweight, I've never quite been severely overweight to the point where it impacted me physically but it has always bothered me and made me very self concious which only makes me more of an introvert. On my list of goals, losing weight is always the top one. I know why I'm overweight, it isn't some big mystery, I eat too much unhealthy food and don't exercise enough.
Just over a year ago I weighed about 294 pounds which is a lot, especially when you factor in that my height is around 5,9. At this point I stopped drinking sugary drinks, I cut them out completely and started to drink only water, not changing my diet or exercise I lost about 42 pounds. When I reached around 250 pounds I've started to sit at that weight, loosing and gaining around 10 pounds. So the next step is to increase the amount of exercise I get.
Yesterday I completed the 10,000 steps without much of a problem. It involved me going for a long walk which was like a circle around my town and then back home. This ended up being about 8,000 so I took the dog for a walk as well which pushed it over. Seeing the goal complete on my phone seems so trivial but it really did make me feel great. So I figured I might continue doing this every day for a a few months and see how it affects my weight. I'm going to make a post every Tuesday with showing the progress.The point of making posts about this is to hopefully help others who might be looking for something to spark some interest into going for walks. That's it for week 0, thanks for reading.