LilyFestre,
I just read your post of the 15th! WOW! SO proud of you, that is a very big deal! Congratulations!

Liz,
I don't know what 'pootling' involves, but once I wore a pedometer through a couple hours of browsing and searching in big-box stores and part of a mall, and it was 12,000 steps. Which certainly COUNTS! We have ton of people who mall-walk around here, they window-shop and keep moving.
Did you make up 'pootling' or is that a real word? I love it.

As for me, doing okay, weight plateaus and then drops 1 or 2 if I remain 'good'. Gotta get in more walks in a week. Back exercises starting to pay off.