Group Feedback - Week 1

Snack attack - Pack a healthy snack!

All our Ten Top Tip volunteers have made very healthy food choices to snack on. The most popular snack this week is fruit, eating an apple, banana or nectarine will definitely help towards achieving 5 a day. Check out what counts as 1 portion, why a variety of colours are important and more helpful tips for getting your 5-a-day in.

More Handy Hints to Help.....Walk off the weight

• 10000 steps is roughly the equivalent to walking 4-5 miles depending on your stride length and pedometer.
• So 2000 steps is approximately 1 mile or 15-20mins brisk walking
• Try walking for part of your journey to work e.g. get off the bus a stop earlier
• Talk a 15 minute brisk walk at lunch time
• Try working out a 10 minute, 15 minute, and 20 minute walk route from your front door and back. Depending on your time available you’ll have a ready prepared walk to fit in!
• More ideas for ways to increase your Walking see our guide for Walking your way to better health.

Steps, steps and more steps

This week our volunteers did 205,031 steps, if you all worked towards an extra 1,000 steps / day that’ll be an extra 7,000 each over the week and a further 28,000 steps in total, goodluck guys!