Today's 10-minute walk is helping you create a walking habit you will love.

Hi, I'm Dave. Stanley writes, back in December, my doctor recommended that I start walking.

This is kind of the concept of movement as medicine and Stanley's doctor gave him a prescription. Start

moving. Start walking. Okay, back to Stanley. At the same time, I also gave up fast food

and iced coffee. I started with walking 12,000 steps a day. I'm going to push pause just

for a moment.

Stanley did like a double hard thing here.

To create a walking habit every day is really hard.

To start at 12,000 steps a day, super hard.

But that was Stanley's decision and he succeeded okay so back to

Stanley two days later two days later I was down nine pounds that's incredible

Stanley says while I'm out walking, I listen to your podcast, walking is fitness.

It keeps me motivated and happy to be walking. Stanley, thank you. I appreciate that.

That's one of my goals is to help you stay motivated and that you're happy while you're listening and walking.

I think that's far more the walking than the podcast because walking is one of those things that can actually have this emotional impact on us.

It helps us to manage anxiety.

And if you're out walking with some intensity, it also can release endorphins.

By the way, I'm not a doctor, not a licensed personal trainer.

This podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only.

So pretty sure it's the

walking that's making you happy, but thanks for listening and really glad that you're getting

some motivation. Stanley continues. He's not done yet. So today, and he wrote this last week,

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