How Far Do You Walk In A Day?

The Amish eat rich food but experience a lower level of obesity compared to the majority of us. So if you are Amish and eat fatty or sweet stuff, you'll most likely still be slim. Wanna know their secret? A lot of moving about! On the average it seems the Amish walk about 19000 steps a day as compared to the rest of us who do 12000. Add that to the other things they need to do like farming plus all the inconveniences of no electricity in their lives, they work a lot with their hands also.

Got me thinking... and yesterday evening I went to dig out my old pedometer which we got a year or two back. That time other half wanted to measure the distance he walked every day...so he got them. To be fair...he got one for himself and one for me. But I could only find one yesterday and it was flat. So after putting in a new battery, it was as good as new.

This how my pedometer looks like. First the number of steps you take. This figure was just for the early morning running around the kitchen getting breakfast ready. I shall see what the figure is like tonight.

Then the distance that you walk for the day. The running around only made up about 0.5 km.

And the estimated calories that you have burnt. Not very much as can be seen here. I am keeping in mind the 19 000 steps by the Amish.

Some more this is part of the breakfast that we got ourselves today at school...another half made up of different varieties went into our stomachs much earlier.... 8) How to keep the fat at bay??

So basically you are not doomed by your obese genes or diet only. You are doomed by your lifestyle. To all you who have a sedentary life...get out and start living...don't be glued to the screen only....