Pedometer Field Test by Money Magazine

Sorry, I have not blogged in a while.  I have come to the conclusion that blogging is more difficult than it looks.  It is difficult to write consistent good content when one has other daily tasks. Consequently, I plan on blogging when I have good content. I am not going to blog just to blog. I will try to build a habit to have good content every week. It will take a while to build that habit.

I am a big pedometer user.  For a while, I wore a pedometer everywhere I went to track how many steps.  My goal was to walk 10,000 steps a day as that’s what some experts believe keep a healthy heart. 

After consistent use of a pedometer, I came to the conclusion, that the only way I could achieve 10,000 steps was to walk at least 30 to 45 minutes a day. This gives me about 6,000 steps from the walking and 4,000 steps from my day-to-day movement. 

I would not have known that had I not measured and tracked my progress. I have mentioned a few times: It is imperative to track your progress and watch trends. With your information, you can make smarter decisions with your activity. 

Here’s the abstract of Money Magazine’s Pedometer Field Test

1. Money Magazine field test winner
   Grade: A- Omron Pocket HJ-720ITC - $50
2. Grade: B  Oregon Scientific PE823 - $20
3. Grade: B- New Balance VIA Wrist Pedometer by Highgear - $60
4. Grade: C  Walk4Life WFL Elite - $29
5. Grade: C- New Lifestyles NL-2000 Activity Monitor - $60

What’s my Favorite pedometer?

Thank you for asking. my favorite pedometer is the: Omron HJ-112 Digital Pedometer. You can find it at Amazon for about $20. The pedometer is light, accurate, and easy to use. It’d say it’s the little brother of the Money Magazine’s field test winner.

An excellent way to track your exercise activity is to combine a good pedometer with Simpleweight’s exercise tracking.

SW’s Site of the week: The Faddist. Dieting by Self Experimentation

With SW’s Site of the week: We’ll describe a relevant website or blog that caught our eye.

We’ve always said, you can use whatever Fad Diet you want and use Simpleweight to track it. As Ryan mentioned in a previous post, a Diet is what we eat. You may choose to eat healthy or unhealthy, but either way it’s still a diet.

Well, I recently learned of Andy - The Faddist. To paraphrase the Faddist, Andy is using self experimentation as a way to restore his life by adhering briefly to a passing variety of unusual diets.
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What will it take to manage your weight, diet, and fitness?

Short and sweet!

Choose what you want and become committed to the process. That is what it takes to manage your weight.

In a future blog post, I’ll delve into the process of positive self change.

For now, please let us help you get started.

If there was one thing we could do to motivate you to sign up to manage your weight and fitness, what would it be?

Patent Search Diet

Did you know you could use Google Patent Search to diet?

That’s what I learned at lifehack.org. I found an article Kyle wrote describing Unconventional Diet Tips, Lose 50 lbs in 3 months. First, the tips are worth mentioning:

1. Buy a Digital Scale
2. Weigh yourself everyday
3. Drink 8 glasses of water everyday
4. Make your Diet Public
5. Don’t Diet on the weekends
6. Don’t sacrifice your life for your diet
7. Make Small Changes
8. Gain perspective by understanding the fractions
9. Rationalize your workouts
10. Have a red flag weight

Lastly, for the curious out there…I followed the Weight Watchers diet. I did not pay for the diet, nor did I go to meetings. I found out all the information about the diet on-line. The first place to look is at their patent.

All well known diets are available via Google Patent Search.

Author: Kyle Pott, Source: lifehack.org

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The Slow Weigh to Weight Loss Defined (Part 1).

The Slow Weigh to weight loss is increasing methodical minute changes to your eating and exercise habits until you achieve the results you desire.

When using The Slow Weigh to weight loss, you must follow four simple rules:

1. Measure my progress at regular intervals (suggested: every day).
2. Decrease my Food In.
3. Increase my Food Out.
4. Review and Adjust my routine at regular intervals (weekly or monthly).

Stop reading now, write the rules down on a piece of paper 5 times. Then, recite them to yourself 5 times every day.

There is no weight loss pill, there is no weight loss gimmick, there is no surgery, nor alien abduction that causes miraculous weight loss. We must follow those four rules for weight loss.

What are they again?

1. Measure my progress every day.
2. Decrease my Food In.
3. Increase my Food Out.
4. Review and Adjust my routine at regular intervals (weekly or monthly)

That’s it! The simple way to weight loss is The Slow Weigh to weight loss.

Your Next Action or Homework for the next 7 days:

1. Memorize the rules by reciting them to yourself every day.
2. Begin to visualize yourself doing these rules in vivid detail.
3. Start to decide what rule you want to attack first. I will give you a hint. Start with rule number 1.

That’s it? Yes, I told you it was going to be slow and methodical. That’s the first step. Memorize The Slow Weigh to weight loss rules.