Could it have been the water?

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 10:55:26 +0100, (janice) wrote:

Doesn't sound right to me. For me, 10,000 steps is something over 4
miles, so by this reckoning you'd have to have walked at least 2 miles
to get your reading. Do you have a way of checking it along a stretch
of road or something whose distance is already known to you?

You could also mentally count the paces for a few hundred, and then
see if your pedometer has registered the same number as you've
counted.

If it's really out, I'd try a different one.

Janice

Today I did some experimenting at the gym. I walked on the treadmill
for one minute at 3.0 mph and counted my steps mentally: 111. I had
the pedometer on during that time and it registered exactly the same.
Then I reset the pedometer and the treadmill and walked for one mile
at the same 3.0 pace (20 minutes). I expected my stride length to
stay pretty constant since I was on a treadmill, so expected a step
count of approximately 20 * 111, or 2220. I got 2206 -- very close.
So the pedometer seems to be doing a fine job of counting steps.

Then I looked at the miles it said I'd walked, and it said .405! And
of course I'd walked exactly 1 mile. So I'm going to just use it for
counting steps and not make use of the mileage reading. (Also, I've
concluded that the 5000 or so steps yesterday was correct. Once I
started paying attention to how many steps are involved in just
general walking around, I realized they add up pretty quickly.)

Today's step count was around 7500 (an estimate, since I reset it for
the treadmill experiment and didn't remember exactly what it was at
that point). I didn't do a lunchtime walk since I was at a workshop
through lunch, and the only cardio I did at the gym (if you could call
it that!) was this one mile on the treadmill. I did leave it on
during my Olympic lifting workout to see if that worked out okay and
it seemed to. I think it probably registered steps during the lifts,
but that's no big deal. Pretty much all of the lifts you do in
Olympic lifting involve hip flexion, which would likely advance the
counter. (But the lifting is way more exercise than walking, anyway,
so I figure it doesn't hurt to count it :-). )

Chris
262/139/ (145-150)

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 10:55:26 +0100, (janice) wrote:

Doesn't sound right to me. For me, 10,000 steps is something over 4
miles, so by this reckoning you'd have to have walked at least 2 miles
to get your reading. Do you have a way of checking it along a stretch
of road or something whose distance is already known to you?

You could also mentally count the paces for a few hundred, and then
see if your pedometer has registered the same number as you've
counted.

If it's really out, I'd try a different one.

Janice

Today I did some experimenting at the gym. I walked on the treadmill
for one minute at 3.0 mph and counted my steps mentally: 111. I had
the pedometer on during that time and it registered exactly the same.
Then I reset the pedometer and the treadmill and walked for one mile
at the same 3.0 pace (20 minutes). I expected my stride length to
stay pretty constant since I was on a treadmill, so expected a step
count of approximately 20 * 111, or 2220. I got 2206 -- very close.
So the pedometer seems to be doing a fine job of counting steps.

Then I looked at the miles it said I'd walked, and it said .405! And
of course I'd walked exactly 1 mile. So I'm going to just use it for
counting steps and not make use of the mileage reading. (Also, I've
concluded that the 5000 or so steps yesterday was correct. Once I
started paying attention to how many steps are involved in just
general walking around, I realized they add up pretty quickly.)

Today's step count was around 7500 (an estimate, since I reset it for
the treadmill experiment and didn't remember exactly what it was at
that point). I didn't do a lunchtime walk since I was at a workshop
through lunch, and the only cardio I did at the gym (if you could call
it that!) was this one mile on the treadmill. I did leave it on
during my Olympic lifting workout to see if that worked out okay and
it seemed to. I think it probably registered steps during the lifts,
but that's no big deal. Pretty much all of the lifts you do in
Olympic lifting involve hip flexion, which would likely advance the
counter. (But the lifting is way more exercise than walking, anyway,
so I figure it doesn't hurt to count it :-). )

Chris
262/139/ (145-150)

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:58:25 -0400, Dally wrote:

My free McDonald's pedometer seems to increase the count like crazy
whenever I sway back and forth. For example, I can get 1000 steps by
folding laundry (standing in one place.) Lowering my pants to go to the
bathroom is worth 200 steps. :-)

I don't think mine is that bad. I did notice that I got about 6 steps
in the bathroom, though :-).


That said, a fairly sedentary day where you walk around the parking lot,
back and forth a ways to the cafeteria and then maybe stop at the
grocery store could be about 6000 steps. The lowest I've seen on a very
sedentary day for me was around 3500 steps and that's with NO commute
and lunch 20 feet down the hall.

That's what I concluded when paying more attention to it today. I did
a little bit of counting and checking during the day and was surprised
how fast the steps add up. It was around 400 steps from where I
parked at the conference center today to the meeting room -- nothing
that registers as a significant walk, but a good chunk out of 6000
steps.

Chris
262/139/ (145-150)

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:58:25 -0400, Dally wrote:

My free McDonald's pedometer seems to increase the count like crazy
whenever I sway back and forth. For example, I can get 1000 steps by
folding laundry (standing in one place.) Lowering my pants to go to the
bathroom is worth 200 steps. :-)

I don't think mine is that bad. I did notice that I got about 6 steps
in the bathroom, though :-).


That said, a fairly sedentary day where you walk around the parking lot,
back and forth a ways to the cafeteria and then maybe stop at the
grocery store could be about 6000 steps. The lowest I've seen on a very
sedentary day for me was around 3500 steps and that's with NO commute
and lunch 20 feet down the hall.

That's what I concluded when paying more attention to it today. I did
a little bit of counting and checking during the day and was surprised
how fast the steps add up. It was around 400 steps from where I
parked at the conference center today to the meeting room -- nothing
that registers as a significant walk, but a good chunk out of 6000
steps.

Chris
262/139/ (145-150)

"Dally" ha scritto nel messaggio
...
Only in profile with my belly sticking out - partly
damage from c-section and three pregnancies - did I look obese. And
that belly was empty - you could punch it down with a girdle. Not the
well-packed lard you see on fat men.

Dally, I'm just curious - did you have the C-section with every child, or
just once?
I'm asking because DD is my first child, delivery was vaginal, and the belly
is still - almost 11 months later - huge :-( So I guess I'm just asking if
this could be considered "normal" to have a belly after the pregnancy and
vaginal birth (even if you exercise), or you had C-section every time which
means that there is no excuse for my belly ;-)
I did actually lose 15 cm around the belly (measured at the belly button),
which only tells you how big it was in the first place...

Elly

"Beverly" ha scritto nel messaggio
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I wonder why we just don't trust that scale and have to check it several
times? Maybe I was just amazed to finally see the numbers go down when I
hadn't been giving it an all out effort.

I used to step on the scale 3 times in one weigh-in, and take the middle
number as "the true number". My GP/nutritionist told me to take the first
number as the true number, period.

This time, I actually weighed in on Monday and saw 84.5 kg (cca 185.9 lbs).
As I was drinking all that water and herbal tea on Wednesday, and had all
the extra trips to the bathroom (and yes, this should be counted in as the
extra exercise! ;-) I was just curious and stepped on the scale yesterday
morning, when I saw that I lost those 1.1 lbs. Then I just couldn't believe
it. So I stepped on the scale again. And again ;-)

I probably looked strange running
back and forth between the bedroom and bathroom to weigh myself several
times.

That's why I keep the scale in the bedroom - to avoid the (streaking)
running through the appartment ;-)

Congratulations on your weight loss!

Thank you!

I wish I could join the pedometer challenge, but I don't have the pedometer.
For some reason, they are not so popular over here; I guess I should go to
the specialised store to get one (I read someone post they got it from
McDonald's - all we get from McD's are just kids' toys ).

Elly

"PL" ha scritto nel messaggio
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(First mini-goal: 299 Reached! 08/26/04)
(Second mini-goal: 279)

PL, congratulations on your first mini-goal achieved! Keep up the good work!

Elly
breastfeeding mom of a 10mo, following the balanced low carb WOE
Mid July 2004: 195.8 / 184.8 / mini-goal by October 11th:
173.8 to 171.6 lbs
sometime in the (distant) futu 150 lbs

On 9/9/2004 4:13 PM, Dally wrote:

Thanks for getting it, PL. I'm happy not to be fat anymore, but I'm
really not PROUD to have lost the weight. I don't see what I did as
anything really to be proud of: from the point of view of sane eating
and exercising, for a while I didn't care what I weighed and then when I
*did* care I fixed my problem. What's there to be proud of?

I think that this is something to be proud of. So many people *don't*
fix the problem... They know that they should eat better, eat less and
exercise more and yet they don't do it. You did it and whether or not
you are proud of yourself -- I'm proud of you!

--
jmk in NC

On 9/9/2004 11:01 PM, Chris Braun wrote:
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 10:55:26 +0100, (janice) wrote:


Doesn't sound right to me. For me, 10,000 steps is something over 4
miles, so by this reckoning you'd have to have walked at least 2 miles
to get your reading. Do you have a way of checking it along a stretch
of road or something whose distance is already known to you?

You could also mentally count the paces for a few hundred, and then
see if your pedometer has registered the same number as you've
counted.

If it's really out, I'd try a different one.

Janice


Today I did some experimenting at the gym. I walked on the treadmill
for one minute at 3.0 mph and counted my steps mentally: 111. I had
the pedometer on during that time and it registered exactly the same.
Then I reset the pedometer and the treadmill and walked for one mile
at the same 3.0 pace (20 minutes). I expected my stride length to
stay pretty constant since I was on a treadmill, so expected a step
count of approximately 20 * 111, or 2220. I got 2206 -- very close.
So the pedometer seems to be doing a fine job of counting steps.

Oh well, it will be fine for a step counter then :-)




--
jmk in NC

On 9/9/2004 11:09 PM, Ignoramus26161 wrote:
Mine (a cheap freebie that my wife got for me)

What is an expensive freebie?


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jmk in NC