There’s an article on the Prevention website on who burns the most calories walking at work. Stay at home moms actually came in second, just behind mail carriers.

In some ways this doesn’t surprise me. I just have to think about the days that Gage doesn’t want to let me sit for more than 5 minutes at a time before he’s pulling me off to help him with something, get him a snack and so forth.

I’m having some trouble picturing it adding up to 6.7 miles, but I suppose it’s possible. It’s really off and on, though, and some days I definitely walk a lot more than others. School days, for example, would add up to at least a mile total walking to and from school. But that’s only 3 days a week right now, and about to end now that summer’s here.

So, does anyone have a guess how much they walk a day? I’m tempted to get my old pedometer out and check things out personally. I would expect the stay at home mom number to vary tremendously.

[tags]sahm,walking,exercise[/tags]