My mums stepometer !! lol..lol..

A friend's husband has been wearing a pedometer, and when he returns from his last walk of the day, he inputs the number of steps on a computer charity website that he and a group of colleagues have joined. They are walking (virtually) round the world for charity. He had got as far as Hungary last week. One friend has made it to Thailand.

Not quite a stepometer, but many many years ago I used to have one of those sort of resistance step things, do you know what I mean? I'm not talking about a little plastic platform type thing that you step on to and off again. This was something that you stood on and used pressure to push each separate foot platform down. (I'm drawing pictures in the air here, hope they help)

Aaaanyway, I realised I wasn't exactly taking it seriously when I took it in to the sitting room while the supper was cooking so that I could use it while watching Eastenders (for the record, I haven't watched Eastenders for over 8 years!). It wasn't the watching T.V that alerted me to the fact that my approach to my exercise regime wasn't exactly sound, it was more the fact that I had a glass of wine in one hand, and a cigarette in the other.

I'm actually wearing one now! I've done over 4.000 steps today just popping to the doctors and going into work and back - neither is very far away, so it just shows. DH does 1000s every day. He makes far more effort than I do. I must say that using one shows me how little I do on a daily basis - usually less than 1000! - and therefore I should make more effort. It would do me more good than going to a gym - as long as there are loos en route of course

We've all had those moments haven't we?!!

like it, and she was only telling the truth!!!

Easy mistake to make!