I've been walking with a FitBit One since 2016 and have experienced the following. First, the most important point.....accept the fact that dedicated walking, in one's mind, needs to become a "routine" part of his or her daily/weekly regimen. Doing something only when you feel like it or have time isn't going to cut it over the long haul. Since 2016 I have altered my regimen a few times. When I first started, weight loss was my primary motivator. I lost forty-one pounds in less than nine months. I would average about 425K per month (around 14,000 steps per day). Once I got the weight down, I backed down to around ten thousand steps per day. I closely, to this day, monitor my caloric intake, type of foods consumed and volume of water I drink. I had increased my daily steps goal to twenty thousand per day but began to suffer foot fungus issues when the warm weather arrived. I now strive to achieve twelve thousand steps per day but on some day's, an unplanned interruption may alter my step count. I walk most days 2.5 miles before breakfast. This activity provides me with around 5,500 steps to begin the day. Other movements (grocery shopping, tending to the farm animals, yard work, etc.) round out the balance of my step count for the day. Presently, I have done pretty well on the weight maintenance with only a ten pound increase in weight since I lost the forty-one pounds in 2016. I feel a bit stronger at 216 than at 206.
Hope my story will provide you with information which might be helpful as you embark on your efforts to include walking as part of your daily regimen. Here's to your success!!!
