When I was awaiting the arrival of my pedometer, I was worried that I would find out that I’ve been overestimating my activity level. A lot of reviewers wrote about how they thought they were at the “active” level of 10,000 steps per day, only to find themselves barely breaking 3,000.

Now that I’ve had my pedometer for several days now, I understand why I have been able to eat so much and not get overweight: I am a very active person!  I walk 10,000+ steps a day, usually even more.  For example, yesterday I walked 28, 234 steps, 12,866 of which (114 minutes) were aerobic.  Granted, Sundays are my hiking day, but my  normal days are quite active too.

Though it’s been good to back up my belief that I have an active lifestyle, I’m not going to let this lull me into a full sense of security.  I still need to make diet changes and continue going to the gym in order to sculpt the body I want.  It’s going to take more than walking a lot to tone this skinny fat body.