Thanks to the pedometer I received as a Christmas present in 2009, I am taking a small step to improve my daily life: to walk after dinner. I never really cared about doing any exercise my whole life until 2-3 years ago when I started to swim regularly. I felt so refreshed and energized after each swim; in fact, I was addicted to it: I wanted to do it daily. The problem with swimming is it takes too long to wash off the chemicals in the pool. I felt bad about wasting so much water taking a long shower every other day. Then, there was the report about how unhealthy the pool water could be... Walking is a lot simpler. I could get up and go for a walk. I even solved the problem of not wasting electricity by taking stairs down and up, which was not easy since I live on the 12th floor (so that I could see the Pacific Ocean every day). After today's walk, my pedometer told me that I took 4721 steps, and burned about 157 calories. Not bad. With a little longer walk, I can burn 200 calories each day, which would be 10% of 2,000 calories I believe I consume daily. Come walk with me!
标签: walking
