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New Omron acceleration pedometer available
Last year I was giving a workshop in Melbourne when one of the participants pulled a pedometer out of her bra and checked her step count.The other people at the workshop were just as intrigued as I was: what an original place to wear a pedometer!
This was no ordinary pedometer. It was an acceleration pedometer, the new generation of pedometers that uses acceleration sensors to count steps at any angle.
For several months I coveted the idea of wearing a pedometer in my bra. With my clip-on-the-hip pedometer, using it is dependent on what I wear. If I wear a tailored dress one day, I can't wear my pedometer because it looks lumpy under my dress. Then I lose my momentum and I forget to wear it the next day, and the one after that...
Having investigated the various acceleration pedometers available, I'm pleased to announce that the new Omron acceleration pedometer is now available to you through my E-Shop.
This pedometer uses unique acceleration sensors to accurately count your steps, whether you carry it in your bag, in your pocket, or wear it around your neck.
I've been road testing this neat little pedometer for the past three months and I absolutely love it. Every day it tucks discreetly into my bra regardless of what I'm wearing. Because I can wear it every day, I do wear it every day.
It always amazes me the difference that seeing my daily step counts makes to my activity levels and my attitude about it.
This summer I've needed to do quite a bit more running around with our children than usual. Being an 'energy efficient' person, burning kilojoules is not something that comes naturally to me. However, when I saw how much this enforced incidental activity made to my step counts every day, I actually started to relish that activity.
Several afternoons this summer I even found myself walking up the road under the hot sun to buy lunch rather than going upstairs to buy it, just so that I could increase my step count. How bizarre but wonderful.
Three months later and I'm enjoying the benefits of having kept my daily step counts up around the 10,000 mark. Last Thursday I wore my slim fitting jeans again for the first time since the weather got too hot in December, and how pleasing it was to see them glide on so easily!
If you'd like to order one of my new acceleration pedometers to help motivate you to stay active and on track for success, click here.
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"Hi Dr Amanda, I recently found a copy of your book 'Don't Go hungry For Life'. I had been doing well in my weight loss recently, & just like to keep an eye on the various theories etc from time to time. I had gained a lot of weight having my 5 children over 8 years (plus 4 miscarriages), & in the past, each time I had tried to lose weight...I got pregnant again! I am 157cms tall, & when I was younger, & dancing, right up to my mid-20s, I was generally around 50-55 kgs. Once I started having kids, I would go all the way up to 90+kgs. Anyway, February last year (2010), at 83 kgs, I got serious, started reading every idea, wacky or plausible, trying things on for size, so to speak. If something worked, & wasn't too painful, I'd keep it until I hit a plateau, then I'd change something - anything. I kept a written record of food, hunger, my cycle etc, & anything else I thought relevant. I was weighing myself very frequently as I hadn't bothered at all before. I had been suffering with the usual things that go with being heavy - lethargy, tiredness, mild depression, unexplained skin rashes at times. So it wasn't just my weight I was trying to fix. So, by June last year, I had lost a few kilos, felt a bit better, but wasn't going forward as well as I wanted. I joined an online challenge to give me a boost, & kept trying different theories. So, while I didn't 'yoyo' through this, I did try cutting out whole food groups, counting calories, sticking to set limits per day. Anything that I couldn't see myself holding onto long term I abandoned. I ended up winning third place on the online challenge - a nice bonus - & by the end of last month I had lost a total of 17 kilos in as many months. A great result, but not at my goal yet. So when I picked out your book, & another which kind of came close to your approach, but not quite as committed, I was pleasantly surprised to see on the pages, the science behind what I had arrived at. Not only that, it gave me incentive to get back to the written record, which I had stopped, & the clues regarding hunger & satiety as scales to learn helped tweak my approach, so that now, 3 weeks since I started reading, I have doubled my weight-loss rate, from an average of 1 kilo a month, to 1.5 in those 3 weeks! The exercise portion of your approach has been taken care of by the fact that last November, I started back in the workforce, after 15 years at home, home-schooling our family. I now work in a busy supermarket, where just getting to the office from my department (I counted) takes at least 120 steps, plus stairs. I do this trip & back at least 5 times every day, as well as heavy lifting of stock etc & general walking about the store. So I wanted to thank you for sharing your research & story, I tend to find if I understand the 'why' of something, I remember it better. Your book has definitely explained why what works, does, & why what didn't, doesn't! Have a great year. "