I know, I know, weight loss is not supposed to be easy.  It takes blood, sweat and tears, right?  Not always.

I have been feeling under the weather again this week.  Well, it’s more than under the weather, but I won’t bore you with all the details.  Since I have been sick (again), I haven’t really had the energy to put into working out with Tony Horton and doing P90X.  Seriously, P90X takes energy and stamina and I just didn’t have it.  However, I found myself really missing my workouts.  So I got out my handy-dandy pedometer, blew the dust off, and snapped it on my waist band.  It didn’t surprise me that the first day I wore it, I only had around 3,500 steps.  I mean how can someone who is sick on the couch all day actually wrack up any steps? 

It just so happened that another mom I have become friends with and hang out with 4 times a week at cheerleading practice had been to the doctor and he told her that she needed to lose some weight.  So on the second day of wearing my pedometer, she suggested we walk around the field a few times.  I didn’t have a lot of energy, but I wanted to do something, so I decided to give it as much as I could.  My total steps at the end of that day were 7,300.  Okay, getting better.

We walked again Wednesday and my total steps at the end of that day were 11,500.  Awesome because I had been aiming for 10,000!  Now, since I have been sick, I really haven’t watched what I ate all that much this week, and actually even went to Applebee’s yesterday for lunch out with my mom and I probably had the worst lunch ever as far as fried foods, high fat, and loads of calories. 

I measured my waist yesterday and was down a 1/2 inch, and even though I don’t normally weigh myself and just go by how my clothes feel and the inches lost, I decided to jump on the scale this morning just to see where I’m at.  I’ve actually lost 4 lbs. since being at the doctor last Friday!  So 4 lbs. in one week just wearing my trusty pedometer and aiming to get at least 10,000 steps.

How cool is that?

To find out more about pedometers and weight loss and how to get started counting your steps, check out Will Walking with a Pedometer Help Me Lose Weight from the experts at Ivillage.

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