10,000 steps

Wow, 10,000 steps they say?  Well I've looked at this both ways.  One way of thinking, are they crazy?  Thats alot of steps!  Second, aww thats nothing, no problem.  Boy am I shocked!!! and a little disappointed but at least now I know.  Okay there have been numerous publications and such that says the average person should or does walk about 10, 000 steps per day.  When they put it that way, I thought surely I am in there with the norm, lol.  Wrong!  What a rude awakening, lol.  I was not anywhere near that 10,000 step mark!  Actually I barely hit the 3,000 step mark! Unbelievable!  Now get this, the literature says that with the average stride length, about 2,000 steps will be approximately 1 mile.  So I thought, oh no problem, I KNOW I walk at least a mile a day.  MORE WRONG!  With my stride length, it takes me approximately 3,000 steps to distance a mile!  OMG!  So I was/am barely walking a mile in one whole day? Well, instead of feeling bad about this, I've decided to turn this around and make something positive about this.  Here's what happened.  When I started Weight Watchers I knew I was going to have to incorporate some type of physical activity into my daily lifestyle and I just figured walking would be the easiest and most economical.  Sooo I found this pedometer that Weight Watchers sells and after you program your info into it, it will actually give you a points value based on your daily or session activity, its all up to you.  Anyhow, it really is a neat little gadget but it really shocked me to see how little physical activity I have in my life.  The first day I wore my pedometer, I barely logged in 3,000 steps!  Thats terrible.  Somewhere, somehow I have become a "sedentary" (curse that word) human being!  Aargh!  How did this happen?  You know when you have to fill out a questionnaire and theres the part where they ask you about your lifestyle, Physically Fit, Active, Sedentary???  I never ever thought that about myself, I always got by putting down moderately active.  I never see myself as sitting there all day.  Sedentary is/was a bad word until now.  Now I know where I am and I dont want to be here.  This pedometer is my new best friend.  It wont do me any favors by fudging the numbers to make me feel better, nope, lol.  So with that I am making it my goal to increase my step count each week and just keep moving up from there. 10,000 here I come!