's motd Wed Oct 6, 2010 - Stairs

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STEP RIGHT UP!

Wednesday, 06 October 2010

From my very first cruise, I made

a rule that all of my cruisers, (who were able), had

to take the stairs from one deck of the ship to the

next. Of course, there was a reason for my

stair-climbing orders. See, climbing stairs is such a

great exercise. Hey, your heart loves the

stairs, your lung loves them and climbing the stairs

helps build your stamina.

Well, last week on the cruise, one

of my cruisers told a story that gave us all a good

chuckle. She was taking the stairs up to her cabin,

which was three flights up from where she started. As

she was going up the stairs, one of the ship's crew

members noticed her going up and stopped her. The

crew member asked, "Why is it every time I see

you, you're taking the stairs instead of using the

elevator? It's right there, you' know."

My cruiser said to her, "Oh, I'm on the ship with

for his Cruise To Lose and he wants

us to always take the stairs. I do and I love it!"

Well, that crew member complimented my cruiser on how

good she looked and that it looked like taking those

stairs was really paying off for her. The two of them

giggled but that crew member's compliment stuck with

my cruiser all day!

Now let me tell you, I'm a stairs

man! I mean it, I just love climbing stairs. In many

of the hotels I stay in, I'm often up and down the

stairs from floor-to-floor getting in a little extra

exercise as I do. I was so proud of my cruisers for

staying active and taking the stairs as often as they

could. And believe me, those big Carnival ships have

a lot of decks and so...a lot of stairs. But

it was my cruisers you spotted taking the

stairs more often than the other passengers on the

ship. (See why I was so proud of them?)

Many of my cruisers have already E-mailed to tell me

how much weight they lost during Cruise To Lose

week. Six pounds, eight pounds...one lady, who had a

great deal of weight to lose starting out, lost 13

pounds during our week at sea. Hey, how great

is that?

Walking up and down those stairs

burned a lot of calories for my cruisers last week.

As a matter of fact, a person weighing about 200

pounds can burn up to 15 calories a minute taking

the stairs. Now, multiply that by the number of

minutes my cruisers spent on those stairs everyday

last week and you can see, they burned a lot of extra

calories! (All of that stair-climbing probably added

up to another Sweatin' & Tonin' class

for them! LOL.)

So are you the kind of person who always takes the

elevators? Or are you like me...a stair person? The

next time you're at the mall, or anyplace that has

stairs to climb, put your hands on the railing and...step

right up.

Now if you haven't climbed the stairs in a long time,

I wouldn't start out trying to go up ten flights. I

would just go up one floor then walk right back down.

And the next day, I'd do the same. After a couple of

weeks of doing that, you'll be able to do two floors.

And within a year, why, you'll be able to visit New

York City and take those 102 flights of stairs all the

way to the top of the Empire State Building! So...step

up and you'll see those pounds...go down!

Love,