New Year, New Starts!
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And yes, I realize we’ve been in the new year for quite a while.
And even though New Year’s resolutions aren’t alway a great idea because they can set people up for failure with too high of expectations – still, I find that the holidays often give me a break from everyday life to reevaluate where I am and where I want to be.
Health, being the most important thing, is a good thing to make steps to improve on when you do that evaluation.
Last year I tried to get involved with that WOMAN challenge thing but the pedometer I had missed most of my steps and made it just too frustrating to try to continue with it.
Over the holidays I bought myself a much better pedometer, an Omron, from Amazon:
I tested it and while it does lose small number of steps, it really doesn’t lose a significant number of them.
I decided to try to get to that magic number of 10,000 steps a day! What I found was finding the time to get that many steps in is the hardest part for me.
A few days a week I walk on our treadmill when I exercise, which gets me over half way there, along with regular day to day walking.
However, to get the rest of the steps in I realized I would need to use the treadmill more (at least in the winter). But how to find the time?
A while back I got interested in the idea of working while walking on a treadmill, but wasn’t sure how to set something like that up. The commercial treadmill desks are pretty expensive.
Well, I finally got my husband to make me something to fit over my treadmill so I could at least read while walking!
Next week, I’ll post pictures of how it was made so if anyone wants something similar, you can see how to do it!
Meanwhile, I’ve been doing pretty good with my steps. I noticed the pedometer that I have won’t register steps on the treadmill unless I’m walking at least at 1.5 – which is a little bit faster than some people recommend for working on a treadmill.
To get to 10,000 steps I need to just walk about another 45 or so minutes at 1.5, which I can do most days. I usually do it while I catch up on my reading.
These are my numbers for the past week:
- date steps
- 2/3/09 9600
- 2/4/09 8150
- 2/5/09 10356
- 2/6/09 10182
- 2/7/09 10259
- 2/8/09 5597
- 2/9/09 9851
The really low day was Sunday – I find it difficult sometimes to get up to 10,000 on weekend days. I need a day or two to rest!
I hope to eventually get 10,000 steps at least 5-6 days a week.
So do any of you use a pedometer? Is anyone else trying to get to 10,000 steps a day? Any tips to share for how to do it?
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February 10, 2009
Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year! Yes – I realize its a little bit late for that! I didn’t get a chance to make a new year’s post though.
So what have I been doing? Well, nothing exciting for New Year’s, I was still recovering from being sick. On the 20th of course I watched the inauguration. Not much to say about it though. It was great that there wasn’t any sort of problems, no arrests or anything like that. As much as it might have been cool to be there, I just don’t do cold weather like that, I would have been miserable.
So I stayed home and watched it on TV like most people.
I was hoping to be able to buy an Obama cake or something, but I didn’t see anything like that being sold near where I live. So I had to make my own. I’m not much of a cook so I wanted to avoid baking anything. Luckily Hostess, I think it was, makes little carrot cakes that are round with white icing on top. I bought some and decorated them with that decorating gel in a tube that you can buy:
It was hard to do the date one, that gel stuff doesn’t do small curves too well.
Blagojevich: I’m so glad that guy is gone! He’s sure got some issues doesn’t he? Near where my family lives some somebody had the following sign in their yard – I had to take a picture, great isn’t it?:
Hopefully we can put all the past behind us now, get working on solving the economic crisis and move forward with how we can make the planet a better place for all us to live on.
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February 6, 2009
Vacations make me sick!
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Really, literally apparently. Last year in December we went to Disney World and I got sick while we were there and then recently we went to the Virgin Islands – and I got sick as soon as we got back. Then my husband got it from me!
It was some type of virus that just doesn’t go away, whatever it was it lingered around for weeks. And then there were the holidays, etc. Just now getting myself back together really.
I’m really terrible at being a consistent blogger aren’t I? I don’t know what to do about that. But I don’t want to stop blogging either. I guess I will have to be satisfied with myself as being a somewhat sporadic blogger.
If anyone is still reading – how are you doing? Everything ok? How are you managing in this economic situation? Its getting a bit scary isn’t it?
I haven’t had a chance to catch up with any feeds either – but I’ll promise to write a post again next week.
Although I didn’t see as many butterflies as I had hoped to see while staying at Bolongo Bay, we did see lots of other wildlife. I am blogging about that at my butterfly gardening blog, if you are interested: Butterflies in the Virgin Islands!
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November 15, 2008
Welcome Problogger readers!
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If you are not interested in women’s issues or butterfly gardening, you may want to check out some of my posts at HerProBlog!
Everyone else – Darren Rowse just published a guest post from me at Problogger! It is called ‘What I learned about Blogging from the U.S. Presidential Election‘.
Thank you very much Darren for giving me the opportunity to guest post at Problogger!
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November 14, 2008
Women and Leadership, Part 2
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Barbara Walters – ABC News and ‘The View':
… On the other hand, I have been blessed with a fascinating career. One I never expected to have when I began as a writer on television. And if today, if a young woman comes up to me and says, ‘I’m in journalism because of you,’ I think that is my reward. I never had a mentor, and I am both grateful and so proud that I could be that for someone else.
Jonelle Procope – CEO, Apollo Theater Foundation:
You should always be open to opportunities and new experiences. You don’t always know where life is going to take you and where the next opportunity is going to come from. If you’re open to trying different things, you can eventually find yourself at the right place at the right time. Very often, you have to create your own opportunities by building on the expertise you have and capitalizing on it. You also have to be able to understand your strengths. Many women never step back to determine their strengths and look at their accomplishments, whereas men do that all the time.
Nancy Andrews – Dean, Duke Medical School:
… But in my senior year, some friends from Yale medical school persuaded me to apply to a combined M.D. / Ph.D. program so that I could work in areas of science that wouldn’t be as open to me with only a Ph.D.. This was in the late 1970s, and it never occurred to me that being a woman might be a problem. That was probably a good thing.
Sheryl Sandberg – COO, Facebook:
What I am asked about career strategies, I respond that you need two things: a long-term dream and one- to two- year plan. A long-term dream allows you to work with purpose to achieve real fulfillment. A short-term plan, makes sure you are learning and growing from the work you do each day. All the stuff of the middle is confusing at best and anxiety producing at worst. … When you try to plan every step, you miss opportunities. I believe that if you are open to opportunity and respect the people who share their dreams with you, the rest will take care of itself.
Helene Gayle – CEO, CARE USA:
I went into medicine because in keeping with the values my parents had instilled in us, I wanted a profession that allowed me to give back. When I was doing my residency training in pediatrics in an inner-city hospital, I saw so many children who showed up in the emergency room at night for non-emergency care because they didn’t have insurance to pay for regular health care. I realized that many of the things my patients were facing really were linked to broader issues. If I really wanted to have an impact and keep that child out of the emergency room, I had to look at other ways of helping tackle the underlying issues.
… we put a special focus on empowering women and girls, because we believe they hold the key to long-lasting social change in communities.
Dara Torres – Olympic medalist:
I’ve been in five Olympic Games in 24 years. People have told me how I inspired them. That’s a much more rewarding feeling than bringing home medals. People think they are too old to do something. Others put off doing something or don’t think they could balance being a parent to doing their work, so I guess they like my story. I feel like I’m going out there and doing my thing and loving what I’m doing I didn’t do it to try to show that a 41-year-old could do this. It just ended up that way.
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