The 10,000 Steps Program

OK...all of you healthy, athletic, determined, "on a roll" physically fit folk,...I need help determining a few things. I've worn a pedometer FAITHFULLY every day for the past 18 months and have come to the following conclusions: 1) I have a cheap and relatively inexpensive pedometer (OMRON)and need to invest in a 'better' one, 2) There REALLY might be a non-mechanical, but malfunction with my abnormal weight gain, 3) Learn what my personal *stride* is or 4) Just TOTALLY start over again or get another personal trainer or forget about walking as MY exercise?? Here's why: I should have shed boo-koo pounds by now, I have documentation to prove it. Check this out: According to my research last night on www.shapeup.org; when you commit to walking as your form of exercise..."Walking 10,000 steps is the equivalent of walking 5 miles. The distance covered depends on the length OF YOUR STRIDE...That is why it is approximate". Well, (and I never claimed to be an Einstein or mathematically inclined in mathematics) but, how do you know what the *length of your stride" happens to be? Does it depend on how your pedometer is calibrated/adjusted and whether you are 2,3 or 4mph. Somebody help a sista' out, please! :) PROXIMAL LAP RNY 9/3/02 5'2" 265/180/126-115 Hadiyah, a.k.a.~~

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