In late 2021, Jessica Miller, then 44, had a physical where she recalls, “Nothing was good. My cholesterol was terrible. My blood pressure was terrible.
I needed to lose some weight.” Her doctor asked if she was thinking about getting any exercise. “I said, ‘I was going to try to do something when I get older,’ and he said, ‘Older is today.
It’s knocking. It’s here. Maybe you should jump in on that,’” she tells TODAY.
She says, “He wanted to put me on medication for blood pressure and cholesterol, but I don’t like taking medicine, and I’m not good at remembering to take it. So, he said, ‘Let’s try walking and see how it goes.’” As a virtual teacher, Miller , and she needed something to counteract her inactivity.
She had been what she calls a “stalker” on the for a few months, and seeing motivated her to give it a try. Within six months, she: Here's how she did it. Miller was walking almost zero steps: “As many as it takes to get from my desk to the coffee machine.
” When she , she didn’t count her steps. She walked for 10 minutes, then 15 and then 20. After that, she started tracking her steps and worked up to 10,000 — sometimes more.
Most days, she wakes up around 5 or 5:30 a.m. and gets her steps in first thing in the morning.
She uses audiobooks as motivation — she only plays them when she’s walking. “If I want to hear what happens in the book, I have to be walking to listen to it,” she says. In the winter, when it’s c.