I bought a small Pocket Pedometer 
The average person walks between 2,000-5,000 steps a day, depending on how active they are. I recently read that the goal should be 10,000! So, with my trusty pedometer, I decided to find out just how many (or how few) steps I take in a day. The results were a bit surprising.
I honestly thought that I was so sedentary that I´d only log about 500-800 steps a day. Boy, was I wrong! Turns out all those trips to the bathroom after drinking ten cups of coffee add up. And putting kids to bed over and over again . . . well, all those steps count. Running back and forth between the stove and the baby who is trying to stuff bottle caps up his nose . . . even more steps. So it turns out that I´m not nearly as sedentary as I thought. In fact, I walked around 1,500 steps today. Which is still virtually nothing, but three times what I was expecting!
Now it all comes down to boosting the number of steps one takes during the day. I´m going to aim for 2,000 for the coming week and then raise it by 500 steps every week or so after that, if not more.
