In a surprising twist, and what is counter to what you’d think, apparently Americans are saying that they are more active than ever, but their weight is not tipping the scale in the downward direction as you would think would correlate to the increase in activity in traditionally more sedentary Americans.

According to new statistics, men and women both answered surveys asking about their physical activity levels, and both answered that their physical activity was on what was considered an active level, which went up several percentage points between the two from years past.

Researchers admit that the results could be slightly skewed so far because they have not had time to “catch up” or that people may be exercising more, and more aware of their physical activity, but they are not chaning other important factors that result in increased weight such as decreasing fat and calories in their diets every day.

In another related story, it is reported that Americans wearing pedometers tend to move around a lot more than people who do not wear a pedometer. My boyfriend actually just got a pedometer, and he says that he is now more aware of moving around more, and he has about 10,000 steps a day now compared to the first day he wore it, which happened to be on a football Sunday when he barely moved his butt off the couch, and only had about 3,000 steps.

He said that wearing the pedometer makes you aware of the times when you are being too sedentary, and it makes you more motivated to keep things moving, including your circulation, by moving your legs, going up and down stairs and just plain getting up and walking around a little bit. Every little bit helps, we now just need to get the diet aspect lined up with increased activity, and we’ll be golden!

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