From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

edinburgher

15,000 steps is fantastic 👏🏻 

Was thinking of you today when I considered hanging out laundry before lunchtime. Didn't, but only as doctors orders is no heavy lifting at the mo 

redofromstart

I'm just short of 9k today (raining!) so beating me. I think Greenbee had the early lead but has allegedly sat on bottom in meetings since. 

Greying_Pilgrim

edinburgher said:

15,000 steps is fantastic 👏🏻 

Was thinking of you today when I considered hanging out laundry before lunchtime. Didn't, but only as doctors orders is no heavy lifting at the mo 

Well, I'm thinking around 15,000 - I don't have any sort of step counter, but I just doubled checked, and my trip into and out of town this morning was in excess of 4 miles, as it was 2 miles to my first port of call, then I walked more between the bank and other shops, then walked out the same route.  Then with LG this afternoon, we apparently walked just over 4 miles - something like 4.25.  I must admit, my calves are beginning to sing about it now though......😵‍💫 You take care of your self, there will always be other days to peg out the washing..... 😁

redofromstart said:

I'm just short of 9k today (raining!) so beating me. I think Greenbee had the early lead but has allegedly sat on bottom in meetings since. 

Bold....... 🤣 

Greying X

rtandon27

Wow - you are all putting me to shame with your step counts! Just over 6000 - not even at my 7000 daily goal!  My excuse is that everything aches today. My Doc will be giving me a telling tomorrow!

greenbee

redofromstart said:

I'm just short of 9k today (raining!) so beating me. I think Greenbee had the early lead but has allegedly sat on bottom in meetings since. 

I did sit on my bottom in meetings. But snuck in an extra walk in a break so am just over 9k steps in total. I'd have to get the treadmill out for meetings to be GP  

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning MFW'rs

Ha ha - I will fully admit that yesterday was a blip, in terms of step-count and there are days that I struggle to do very many at all, so absolutely no need for treadmills 😁  I did read the other day - don't know if it's true - that the 10k steps is an arbitary figure, it was picked for the legacy  'get fit' campaign for the Tokyo (?) Olympics as the Japanese symbol for 10k looks like someone walking.

Cold start with us.  But the sun is out now.  I'm watching a local cat - which is ginger and white, it looks quite, quite majestic, sitting on the fence, burnished by the sunlight.

Must crack on with finishing off LG's resources for school today.  The ingredients were taken in this morning.  So we're half way there 😁

I'm minded to make curry for tea.  Not too sure of variety as yet.  There may be carrots tho....... 🤣

Can't think of anything else MSE to add, so I'll push orf.

Ta for being here.  Greying X

badmemory

Yes 10k steps is an arbitary figure, but it is a target.  So just pick a figure, preferably more than the 2k I dropped down to before my hip replacement.  If 5k is a sensible target for you, then pick that.  Just pick something that is a little more than you do without thinking.  I work on the principle of use it or lose it.  The older you get the quicker you do lose it.  I have managed to get back up to 10k but not yet up to the 12.5k I used to do.

EssexHebridean

GP you are spot on with the origins of the 10k goal, as I recall - and yet it is seen as "the standard" now in spite of being unachievable for so many, and a spot in the ocean to others! I confess that I do try to aim for that as a bit of an average, but not as a hard and fast daily "rule". 

teapot2

I have a soft spot for a ginger and white cat, the colouring of my current and last rescue old boys 😸😻🐈

starnac

EssexHebridean said:

GP you are spot on with the origins of the 10k goal, as I recall - and yet it is seen as "the standard" now in spite of being unachievable for so many, and a spot in the ocean to others! I confess that I do try to aim for that as a bit of an average, but not as a hard and fast daily "rule". 

Same here. I use the figure as a "target" as it makes me move more. But actually you could pick any number higher than what you currently do as your own target as movement is movement. My step totals are very up and down. On days that I am out and about or have a run plan I smash 10k no problem. Then on paperwork and meeting days I barely get near it.