I know that my eyes were opened with the Gowear. I mean, I had read about NEAT in Leigh's books and that is why I got out my pedometer so I could move more - but when you actually see it, boy, it really makes you move. I am like a woman possessed! My husband thinks I have lost it. I don't want to just lay in bed on Saturdays now - I have to get up early and start doing SOMETHING. I look for things to do. Like Leigh, my house has never been cleaner!! I am constantly moving. I don't even want to sit at the computer (standing now).
I can't wait until I can get my hubby to build me a treadmill desk and I can get a laptop! I just know now how much of a slug/sloth I really was. I even want a push mower to mow the lawn! I park WAY in the last parking space possible (even in the rain). It is almost fretful to me to know I have to sit for a long time; I have a trip to make and I am already planning to move more before I have to ride 4 hours. It is crazy how it makes you want to go to another room to get something or bring one bag of groceries in at a time!! I just know if I want to eat more, I need to move more (and I love to eat more!)
What is funny to me that I hear a lot of people say they will diet all week but Sunday will be their "cheat" day. Well, what I have found is that Sunday is the one day I don't deserve near as much food as I thought (Yes, I have listened to Leigh's podcasts on what I think I am owed
) I mean n Sundays, I get up, get ready for church and then go sit for like an hour, then go eat (sitting) come home and I have barely taken 1000 steps. So I thought about all the past Sundays that I would do that and then come home and just lay down, read the paper, watch TV or sit at the computer until evening. I dont even want to know what I burned then - next to zip probably - yet, I would always eat more. So now, I make sure I get my steps in by going for a long walk and doing stuff around the house.
So I am loving knowing my ballpark movement figures - it has really helped me to see how little I used to move (and wondered why I kept getting bigger and bigger...)
Missy