Those of you who have followed my blog over the years know that I’ve been going through a fairly significant weight loss phase. I had lost 60 lbs from when I started this process back in November 2003. If you go through the archives, you can see some of the journey. Well unfortunately since last summer I’ve gained back about 15 lbs or so because I was glued to a computer screen working all the time. When I read this post today on Dan’s site (discovered from the NB blogroll), it was sooo familiar to me. Kudos to him on dropping the weight back off.

One of the things I’ve started using is a pedometer. The first day I used one it scared the crap out of me with the concrete visual of how little I had moved that day. We’re supposed to have 10,000 steps/day and I had a measly 2000. Sitting in front of a computer screen all day will do that to you. Using the pedometer has really motivated me and it’s part of my new business with my brother in law and sister (more on that later;)). So now that I’m playing basketball again, my steps start to add up a lot quicker, but I still need to really make sure that I don’t slide into work mode too much and spend too much time at the computer because that’s where my risk lies with inactivity. I’m hoping that within a couple of months of hitting that 10,000 step goal, I’ll be back to where I was last summer and then can keep going from there.