Could it have been the water?

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:14:13 -0400, "Beverly"
wrote:


"jmk" wrote in message
...

Speaking of pedometer challenge, let's plan on doing one next week.
Everyone who is interested, please plan to wear your pedometer next
Monday. :-)

--
jmk in NC

Count me in! I'll get to use my new one with all the fancy settings - if I
can figure it out G

Beverly - who is going for the standard 10,000 steps per day since I spend
most of my day seated at a computer.



I have a pedometer question. I got a freebie pedometer with some
Citrucel I bought, and wore it today for the first time. I had an
uncommonly sedentary day. We couldn't walk at lunchtime because it
was pouring rain, and it this is one of my gym days off. And I wasn't
very active at work -- just a bit of walking around the hallways, to
and from the cafeteria at lunchtime (it's a ways -- big building --
but still no big deal), walking to and from my car in the parking lot
(also a ways), etc.

Well, right now my pedometer reads 5296 steps, which seems like rather
a lot for an inactive day. But I can also switch it to display miles
walked -- though of course it doesn't know my stride length, so I'm
not sure how it's computing this -- and it shows .985 miles. This
seems entirely plausible given my inactivity. But I thought that in
general a mile was on the order of 2000 steps. So I don't understand
whether one of these numbers is wrong, or how the pedometer is
computing the mileage from the step count, or what's going on. Any
thoughts? I'm hesitant to make much use of this if what it does isn't
making sense to me.

Thanks!

Chris
262/139/ (145-150)

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:14:13 -0400, "Beverly"
wrote:


"jmk" wrote in message
...

Speaking of pedometer challenge, let's plan on doing one next week.
Everyone who is interested, please plan to wear your pedometer next
Monday. :-)

--
jmk in NC

Count me in! I'll get to use my new one with all the fancy settings - if I
can figure it out G

Beverly - who is going for the standard 10,000 steps per day since I spend
most of my day seated at a computer.



I have a pedometer question. I got a freebie pedometer with some
Citrucel I bought, and wore it today for the first time. I had an
uncommonly sedentary day. We couldn't walk at lunchtime because it
was pouring rain, and it this is one of my gym days off. And I wasn't
very active at work -- just a bit of walking around the hallways, to
and from the cafeteria at lunchtime (it's a ways -- big building --
but still no big deal), walking to and from my car in the parking lot
(also a ways), etc.

Well, right now my pedometer reads 5296 steps, which seems like rather
a lot for an inactive day. But I can also switch it to display miles
walked -- though of course it doesn't know my stride length, so I'm
not sure how it's computing this -- and it shows .985 miles. This
seems entirely plausible given my inactivity. But I thought that in
general a mile was on the order of 2000 steps. So I don't understand
whether one of these numbers is wrong, or how the pedometer is
computing the mileage from the step count, or what's going on. Any
thoughts? I'm hesitant to make much use of this if what it does isn't
making sense to me.

Thanks!

Chris
262/139/ (145-150)

"Chris Braun" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:14:13 -0400, "Beverly"
wrote:


"jmk" wrote in message
...

Speaking of pedometer challenge, let's plan on doing one next week.
Everyone who is interested, please plan to wear your pedometer next
Monday. :-)

--
jmk in NC

Count me in! I'll get to use my new one with all the fancy settings - if
I
can figure it out G

Beverly - who is going for the standard 10,000 steps per day since I spend
most of my day seated at a computer.



I have a pedometer question. I got a freebie pedometer with some
Citrucel I bought, and wore it today for the first time. I had an
uncommonly sedentary day. We couldn't walk at lunchtime because it
was pouring rain, and it this is one of my gym days off. And I wasn't
very active at work -- just a bit of walking around the hallways, to
and from the cafeteria at lunchtime (it's a ways -- big building --
but still no big deal), walking to and from my car in the parking lot
(also a ways), etc.

Well, right now my pedometer reads 5296 steps, which seems like rather
a lot for an inactive day. But I can also switch it to display miles
walked -- though of course it doesn't know my stride length, so I'm
not sure how it's computing this -- and it shows .985 miles. This
seems entirely plausible given my inactivity. But I thought that in
general a mile was on the order of 2000 steps. So I don't understand
whether one of these numbers is wrong, or how the pedometer is
computing the mileage from the step count, or what's going on. Any
thoughts? I'm hesitant to make much use of this if what it does isn't
making sense to me.

Thanks!

Chris
262/139/ (145-150)

That definitely doesn't make any sense at all. Is there a way to enter your
stride length? I'm thinking that would definitely be the discrepancy, or
else it's junk. Wal Mart carries a basic Sportline that's less than $10.

Jenn

"Chris Braun" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:14:13 -0400, "Beverly"
wrote:


"jmk" wrote in message
...

Speaking of pedometer challenge, let's plan on doing one next week.
Everyone who is interested, please plan to wear your pedometer next
Monday. :-)

--
jmk in NC

Count me in! I'll get to use my new one with all the fancy settings - if
I
can figure it out G

Beverly - who is going for the standard 10,000 steps per day since I spend
most of my day seated at a computer.



I have a pedometer question. I got a freebie pedometer with some
Citrucel I bought, and wore it today for the first time. I had an
uncommonly sedentary day. We couldn't walk at lunchtime because it
was pouring rain, and it this is one of my gym days off. And I wasn't
very active at work -- just a bit of walking around the hallways, to
and from the cafeteria at lunchtime (it's a ways -- big building --
but still no big deal), walking to and from my car in the parking lot
(also a ways), etc.

Well, right now my pedometer reads 5296 steps, which seems like rather
a lot for an inactive day. But I can also switch it to display miles
walked -- though of course it doesn't know my stride length, so I'm
not sure how it's computing this -- and it shows .985 miles. This
seems entirely plausible given my inactivity. But I thought that in
general a mile was on the order of 2000 steps. So I don't understand
whether one of these numbers is wrong, or how the pedometer is
computing the mileage from the step count, or what's going on. Any
thoughts? I'm hesitant to make much use of this if what it does isn't
making sense to me.

Thanks!

Chris
262/139/ (145-150)

That definitely doesn't make any sense at all. Is there a way to enter your
stride length? I'm thinking that would definitely be the discrepancy, or
else it's junk. Wal Mart carries a basic Sportline that's less than $10.

Jenn

Beverly wrote:

I've been hanging around the 146-148 range for a long, long time.
Last week I decided to participate in the water challenge as I often
forget to drink enough water. This morning I stepped on the scale and
saw 144.5. I checked the scales a couple more times before leaving
the house and it remained a steady 144.5 readout so I'm claiming it!

Yay, Beverly! That's so great - you'll get there I'm sure of it.

chugalug chugalug

--
Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03

Beverly wrote:

I've been hanging around the 146-148 range for a long, long time.
Last week I decided to participate in the water challenge as I often
forget to drink enough water. This morning I stepped on the scale and
saw 144.5. I checked the scales a couple more times before leaving
the house and it remained a steady 144.5 readout so I'm claiming it!

Yay, Beverly! That's so great - you'll get there I'm sure of it.

chugalug chugalug

--
Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03

Dally wrote:

Weird. That's 5.5 pounds in 10 days. My normal rate over the summer
was about 1 pound a month. I guess "practicing maintenance" is over!

Super! Congratulations Dally.

--
Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03

Dally wrote:

Weird. That's 5.5 pounds in 10 days. My normal rate over the summer
was about 1 pound a month. I guess "practicing maintenance" is over!

Super! Congratulations Dally.

--
Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:02:37 -0500, "JMA" wrote:


That definitely doesn't make any sense at all. Is there a way to enter your
stride length? I'm thinking that would definitely be the discrepancy, or
else it's junk. Wal Mart carries a basic Sportline that's less than $10.

Jenn


Nope, no way to enter stride length. If it's junk, I can't complain,
since it was free. I think I'll play with it a bit on the treadmill
and see what it does. Maybe I can count my steps and see if it
matches what I think.

Would there be any way it might measure distance covered other than
multiplying number of steps by some constant? I expect I could have
affected the step count some by random movements -- though whether by
a factor of two I sort of doubt. The miles traveled part seemed
plausible.

Chris

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:02:37 -0500, "JMA" wrote:


That definitely doesn't make any sense at all. Is there a way to enter your
stride length? I'm thinking that would definitely be the discrepancy, or
else it's junk. Wal Mart carries a basic Sportline that's less than $10.

Jenn


Nope, no way to enter stride length. If it's junk, I can't complain,
since it was free. I think I'll play with it a bit on the treadmill
and see what it does. Maybe I can count my steps and see if it
matches what I think.

Would there be any way it might measure distance covered other than
multiplying number of steps by some constant? I expect I could have
affected the step count some by random movements -- though whether by
a factor of two I sort of doubt. The miles traveled part seemed
plausible.

Chris