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Craig Newmark Founder, Craigslist.org |
How many calories do you burn walking each day? I didn't know either, and given that I spend plenty of time hoofing to and from meetings, I wanted to find out. I needed a reliable and consistent measure of how many steps I take, which my nutritionist then uses to calculate how many calories I've burned. Many pedometers, I discovered, don't work very well on hills and are difficult to attach to my belt. The Omron HJ-112 has none of these defects. It's durable and easy to use, and it works even when discreetly hidden in my pocket. You can get pricier GPS-enabled pedometers, but I'm not biting--they usually have to be strapped to your arm, measure distance only in miles, and don't really work any better. My Omron is simple, yes, but it tells me all I really need to know: that I walk an average of 8,000 steps each day, burning as much as 500 calories.
