Any 10,000 Steps (Daily) Success stories?

I started at 5,000 steps also, and progressed from there.

My current daily goal is 11,000, and I'll be pushing it to 12,000 soon.

My daily records are :

20,858 steps
10.05 miles
59 floors
3,235 calories
1,190 activity score

I got my FitBit to earn points on Earnedit.com, and to track how many steps I walk during one of my motorsports days. Here was this past Sunday's:

28323 steps taken
232 floors climbed
10.96 miles traveled
2532 calories burned
1725 active score

I'll be honest though, my daily goal is 5,000 - I have a desk job.

Just from being at work, I get over 7,000 steps. Once I navigate my new neighborhood and the people in it, I will start trying to take walks around to get to 10,000. I usually get up to 8,000 for the day. I think maybe the extra 2,000 will help me. Though I'm already finding it difficult to eat all of the calories without going too far over my macro-nutrients. We will just see how it goes. Good luck to you!

I usually averaged around 12,000 steps just through work, and didn't count home time or gym time. This thread is making me realize my work is more active then I knew lol!

Good job everybody!

Hey all.
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Regarding the 10k steps per day, it was very difficult for me and honestly I didn't stick with it after the surgery. But I did it for 2 months before having my gallbladder removed and it was the major component in my losing the 20lbs I needed to before it.

Things I did to help increase the tick where walking to the far bathrooms each time I needed to go. Sometimes walking to the far bathrooms, returning to the original end of the building then going back to the far end to use it and come back to the office making a double loop so to speak. I tried to do this every hour. Made for 6-10k at work instead of 1500 on an average day. Was just finding ways to increase it. If your office has two sets of doors to come and go from, use the further set. Even if you need to go somewhere out one that makes sense, use the other. In my case, using opposite doors adds 100 steps each direction on a bathroom trip. Do that 6-8 times in a day and you've added what used to be my daily total.

If you can, walk to work. Get off the bus a stop early or something. If you drive, park at the back of the lot, or furthest place from your office.

Walking takes time. About 1 minute for 100+ steps at regular walking. So 10k will be about 80-90 minutes of your day. But you can do it. It will help. And you'll feel better for it.

I made my goal 15,000 steps/day on BodyMedia. I try to reach it each day, but sometimes I don't because I get busy (I have a desk job). I try to walk in the morning before work, sometimes on lunch breaks, and a lot after work. Also, I walk back and forth to work each day because I live in the city (apartment vs work building is 5 min walk).

The first week I got my BodyMedia, I did 15,000 steps/day and lost 7 lbs! I've been doing this for over a month now and have been doing great with it.

I've lost around 20 lbs so far with BodyMedia, and a total of 40 lbs overall. My record steps in one day is 30,224.

I average 17,500 steps during the week. I walk about 20,000 steps on Saturday and Sunday.

My ticker is the result of walking and calorie counting.

Desk job.....have a weekly goal of 120,000.. which rounds out to about 20,000 a day (Sat/Sun 10,000)....that I've maintained and soon will be changing ...FITBIT and MFP power!!

I'm a total "stepping" success story. I participated in a pedometer based study at UCSF Medical School that began in September. I was in a group that used a pedometer ( a very large cluncky medical grade pedometer) and a phone app that you had to interract with twice per day--once in the morning, and once at night. The purpose of the study was to lower your fasting glucose and A1C by walking 12,000 steps per day, and in my case eating 1500-2000 calories per day. The first two weeks of the study, you wore the pedometer (blind--coudlnt' see the output) so that the study could get a baseline of your steps on a daily basis. I averaed 1600 steps per day ( I have a desk job, and was not active).

I began the study on Octboer 1, with the goal to increase my steps 20% per week until I reached the 12,000 daily goal. (It took me until around Christmas to get to that level).

I started tracking calories on MFP (the calorie component was introduced after pedometer component by two weeks) on October 15. I've lost almost 65 pounds. And I will say that while I do aim for 12,000 steps per day, I do 12,000 without question on Friday-Monday. Tuesday-Thursday are tougher for me and I usually hit 6,000-8,000.

Not only have I lost the 65 pounds (and am nearly halfway to my goal weight. But, I feel good. I go to Curves 3 X per week. And I started Couch 2 5K this week, and just completed Week 1 Day 3. (I'm doing a 5K in June....the real reason for me to be doing the C25K program is to help increase my walking pace).

It has been great.

The study concluded March 25. I was the study's poster child for the most weight loss. My cholesterol went down 24 points from 224 to 200--all in the "bad" cholesterol. My good cholesterol went up. I've lost lots of inches. My A1C went from 5.9 to 5.4.

Happy walkin' to all. I'm a believer.

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I aim for at least 10,000 steps a day as well as 50 stairs a day, using a fitbit. It's possible for me because I have built it into my daily routine - I walk 1.5 hilly miles to and from work and always use the stairs instead of the elevator. It's amazing what a different walking instead of driving makes. I don't count that as exercise - in addition to that I lift weights 3 times a week and run intervals if I can. The best part of this is that I can eat 1800 calories or more a day and still lose weight. I have loads of energy and never feel like I don't get to eat enough. So far I have lost 30 pounds and am now officially a 'normal' weight.

When I first got my fitbit and started loosing weight, I did so by calorie counting and hiking (10,000 steps a day)! I lost about 80lbs that way! I now get between 15,000 and 20,000 steps a day, but I am in a plateau, and have been heavy lifting for the last 3 months. I have stayed the same weight, but my body is completely different!!! I would still like to loose 50lbs, but walking no longer does it!

When I began MFP in January, I also downloaded STRIIV on my phone. I've made a conscious effort to wear clothes with pockets, and I keep my phone on me, so I can track my steps throughout the day. ( tracking all my daily steps, not just when walking for exercising).
I aim for a minimum of 10k a day.

It has definitely made a difference for me...but not just from walking. It was a 'step' in the right direction. Now I'm more active in general. In the beginning, I started very slowly....sometimes walking around my house at night while the kids slept. During commercials, a quick walk around the block.

I still enjoy the competition choices on STRIIV, including the short 'Mini relays'. They remind me on less active days to get out and get moving! Any day with grocery shopping or errands is almost always 10000. Other days, I do have to think about it.

Yeah, putting on my pedometer this winter was a real eye-opener for me about how sedentary I've gotten. Things that used to keep me on my feet aren't happening as much any more as my kids get older, and my job keeps me pinned to a desk a lot of the time.

Without an actual bout of "I am going for a walk," my regular daily activities don't take me above 3000 steps, some days. My goal right now, while the weather is still crummy, is to get over 5000, with an ideal of >7000.