Pedometers are amazingly motivating

So my wonderful husband bought me a new ipod for Christmas, which was really as much for him as it was for me because he thought it was SO COOL that it had a built in microphone and video camera. I was really excited because my last ipod was a hand-me-down from a room mate a week before I left for Jerusalem. I had somehow lost my ipod shuffle on campus, and for once the BYU lost and found failed me. Kristy had a new one, so she was happy to give me her old one and I was happy to have it. But the screen was cracked so it took some creativity to navigate and figure out where things were.

Anyway, I have had so much fun exploring the world of an ipod that I can actually read! And it has so much cool stuff on it. FM radio, the video camera, a voice recorder, solitare, a place for notes, a contact list, alarms, a time zone map, not to mention what it was for originally... MUSIC! But there is one other thing it has that I have been most excited about lately. A pedometer. I know that doesn't sound that exciting, but it's so cool! I've started walking 5 days a week, and I've found that it's very motivating to have my steps counted. And also how many calories I've burned. It keeps track of both my daily and monthly step count. But it doesn't end there. When I plug my ipod in to charge, it sends those counts to the nike+active website, which keeps track of my personal record days, and my all time step count. And there are goals that I walk through one at a time from a 100 story building, to walking off an entire pizza, which I just finished. My next goal is to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, which is apparently 78,000 steps. At the rate I'm going, that will probably take about 9 or 10 walks. I haven't missed a day this entire month. So far I've just passed 200,000 all time steps. I'm so having a party when I get to a million.