I’ve been wearing a pedometer since before Christmas. I wanted to get a baseline for how active I am and also encourage myself to increase my activity. It’s worked pretty well. My dog and I both have gotten more exercise in the last few weeks. Up until this last week anyway.

That “21 days to a new habit” is crap. I can usually make it until day 30 or so, and then I just quit. Being more active makes me feel better, makes me sleep better, gives me glimpses of the lovely legs I have hiding underneath the pudge. It’s like I want to be unhappy.

So today I commit to getting 10,000 steps a day for the next week.

I’m also going to start counting calories because all the activity in the world is not going to offset too much food.