Calories are frustrating me!

cwolfman13

Femilaxx1xo wrote: »

kathrynhoward84 wrote: »

I find it hard to believe you don’t achieve 500 steps a day. I live in quite a small house and manage 200 in the morning before leaving the house just doing things like making breakfast, dressing and going to the loo.

Idk tbh.😣

download an app to your phone that tracks steps. The only way you're only getting 500-1000 steps in a day is if you're actually basically doing nothing at all. When I was a student, I walked to my classes, etc. Heck, I'm a desk jockey and sit most of the day and still get around 8,000 in a day...I usually have 2K-3K before I even leave the house just getting ready for the day.

AnnPT77

Yeah, I lay around like a slug all winter long (retired, lackadaisical housekeeper, sedentary winter hobbies), just a little grocery shopping and that sort of thing (for one!). I thought I probably wasn't getting 1000 steps some days. Turned out that even my low days tend to be in the low thousands (2000-4000 would be typical, and frequent low . . . but even then I had some days 5000-6000, and only a couple as low as 1800). I was surprised.

And I wasn't doing nearly as much walking activity then as you report for yourself, OP.

middlehaitch

A bit off topic but, I had an absolutely exhausting day in the garden last week cutting, chopping, and hacking for about 7 hr with a couple of 15-30 min refueling breaks- under 600 steps.

But, like @AnnPT77, a sloth day can garner 4-6000 steps without noticing. Pottering, the skill of the absent minded .

Cheers, h.