If you're doing the Today Show 30-day walking plan, today is a really big day for you.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation

to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself. And isn't that really the hardest part of fitness?

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013,

averaging just about 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now.

And would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

Super humid here in South Carolina.

It almost doesn't matter what the temperature is.

In fact, I'm not even sure what the temperature is,

but this is the kind of day where you can slice the humidity with a knife.

Thanks for joining me today.

So the Today Show on June 1st rolled out a 30-day walking plan and there's also a nutritional component but of course what got my attention

was the walking part and al roker is sort of kind of the plan

spokesman and when the plan got rolled out he talked about how he's lost about 45 pounds in the

last few months by walking and eating low carb.

Now, of course, if you remember 20 years ago, Al had the gastric bypass surgery, which was

successful, lost a lot of weight. I think at the time, he was 340 pounds. I don't know what he is right now, but it's

not even close to that. And of course, as they rolled out the plan, they talked not just about

the weight loss benefits, but they also talked about how walking lower stress, helps you think better,

you know, those things that we've talked about that are huge benefits.

And I don't ever want to take any of those for granted.

And I'm certain there were some who were watching the Today Show, maybe many,

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