Here is yesterday’s post of my food diary totals. I did little exersize. I did walk 7,653 steps according to my fitness watch. However, a majority of these steps are meaningless.

Now the stats for today. I have walked 4.5 miles with 475 calories burned. I really had to push myself this time just to keep up a respectable speed of about 3.5 mph. My heart rate averaged 138 to 142, depending on which leg of my walk. My highest heart rate was 157 when I walked as fast as I could for a short period of time, with a speed peaking at about 4.5 mph. So despite my tiredness at the beginnng through to the end, I did have a good cardio workout. This makes for a calorie target for the day of about 2565 calories. I think I will go to Denny’s for their $2 pancake meal.

I tested out the accuracy of the step count separate from my walking exersizes. Most were do nothing steps, like walking around in my small townhouse. Certain types activity, like dish washing, can total up steps even though steps were not actually taken. My step counter seems to be fairly accurate when exersizing, like when walking. So this stop and go stuff, along with motions like washing the dishes, can provide false step counts. Over a period of day, this sometimes can amount to allot of steps. This last day was such a day. I imagine out of 7,653 steps, maybe at the very most 3,000 were actual steps. I did do some errands, and I kept walking around outside to figure out the (in)accuracies of my activity band. What is interesting is there are algorithms in place to handle stop and go activity. I have seen them in action. It works much of the time. So then what else is counting toward these do nothing steps, aside from washing dishes? I do not know yet.