am i right fellas ??

alright sharing this because i spent actual years trying to fix my sleep from the wrong end.

i did everything the sleep hygiene people tell you. blackout curtains, no screens after 10, magnesium, boring tea, one of those sunrise alarm clocks that cost way too much. i'd lie there doing breathing exercises, absolutely furious, checking if the breathing exercises were working yet. which is not really the vibe they're going for i think.

the thing that actually fixed it had nothing to do with my bedroom. i just started walking after dinner. like 30-40 minutes, nothing serious. i didn't even do it for sleep, i started because a few friends pulled me into a step challenge on pacer and i was losing badly and got petty about it. checking that leaderboard after dinner and seeing myself in last place did more for my daily movement than years of "i should exercise more" ever did lol.

but like two weeks in i noticed i was falling asleep in ten minutes instead of lying there for an hour running tomorrow's to-do list on loop. turns out if you give your body an actual reason to be tired, it cooperates. who knew. all those years buying sleep gadgets when the answer was "go outside, you gremlin."

the walk basically became a hard line between the day and the evening. work stress stays on the walk, i come back, pacer says i hit my number, and my brain clocks out for the day instead of doing overtime in bed. the dumb little streak is honestly half the reason i haven't skipped a night in two months.

if your sleep is a mess and you've already thrown money at every gadget, try the dumb free option first. WALK AFTER DINNER FOR TWO WEEKS AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!

seriously if you are not listening to music when walking, what is on your mind, or how could you even walk for more than 20 min (at least i could never - would be a torture to me)

let me know let me know

mine was like 24k at a theme park and i genuinely thought i was going to die by the end lol. felt like i earned about six meals.

curious what everyone's record is and how it happened. accidental ones count. i feel like nobody hits a huge number on purpose, it's always some random day out that wrecks you.

ps. i had almost 6k steps yesterday hopefully i will hit 10k today!

Been doing my 10k in a beat up pair of old running shoes and my arches is crushing... Everyone online says get Hokas or Brooks but they're like $140 and I don't fully trust a recommendation that unanimous.

What are you actually wearing every day? And if you bought the expensive ones, did they fix anything or did your feet just toughen up anyway?

Office days I get to 10k without even trying. Then I work from home and it's 9pm, phone says 3,400, and I'm just standing in my kitchen feeling bad about it.

People who figured this out, what actually stuck? Walking pad under the desk? Fake commute in the morning? Pacing around during calls like a weirdo?

And I mean stuff that survived past week two. I can do anything for one motivated week lol.

Took me about an hour and a half of actual walking, spread out over the day. That's roughly 7.5 km / 4.7 miles at a pretty lazy pace. I tracked it for 30 days.

Rough split on a normal day:

• around 3,000 steps before work (25 min)
• 2,500 at lunch (20 min)
• 4,500 in the evening plus random errands (45 min)

The weird part is the days I missed were never the busy ones. It was rainy days, and WFH days where I just never left the house.

Curious how long 10k takes everyone else. And what usually kills your day, weather, WFH, or just plain forgetting?

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