(Today’s Weight: 210, Total Miles Walked: 199.5)
For the past two mornings, I’ve weighed in at 210, which is a weight I haven’t seen in a few years. It’s such a great feeling when you start seeing real results from a new activity. After 31 days of using a treadmill desk with no other dietary changes, I’m now down 8.5 pounds.
Graph of weight loss since first building the treadmill desk
Under Desk Treadmill Update
I managed to saw off the upright bars finally, so the treadmill now slides all the way under the Fredrik standing desk. I no longer have to worry about kicking the plastic piece at the front the treadmill, as I’m walking a bit further back on it now. Thanks again to my brother in law for lending me his reciprocal saw.
I sawed off the upright bars to slide the treadmill further underneath my Fredrik standing desk
I first built my DIY treadmill deskon October 19th, and I’ve walked on it for a total of 31 days as of yesterday. After walking 199.5 miles, that’s an average weight loss of one pound every four days, or 23.5 miles per pound (can you tell I’m sort of a numbers person?).
Does this mean that you would need to walk 23.5 miles to lose a pound yourself? Most likely, no. With this treadmill desk experiment, I’m very intentionally not changing anything else about my diet. I still eat as much as I want and drink copious amounts of good beer on occasion. If you are wanting to start a weight loss program, there are plenty of ways to speed up the weight loss by controlling your diet. I’ve just chosen not to do any of those things myself. 
Update On Virtual Walk To Chicago
Here’s the latest map of my Virtual Walk To Chicago, where I pretend that every mile I walk on my treadmill desk is one step closer to the windy city. I’ve apparently just walked past the nice little city of Washington, Indiana.
From reading the Wikipedia page for Washington, Indiana, I’ve learned that the city has a population of 11,380 people, and median family income is $37,713. They seem to have a very nice courthouse as well, judging by the pictures. So, hello lovely citizens of Washington! I hope you all waved back as I passed.
I hope everyone enjoys reading this treadmill desk blog. Please let me know below in the comments if there is anything else you’d like to see on this site, or anything in particular you’d like me to discuss.
When you cut off the arms of the treadmill what did you do with the controlling board?
It's sitting on top of my computers right now. I have some pictures of the disassembly I still need to post someday. You can kind of see the setup in the pictures on this post: http://officewalker.com/treadmill-desk-workstation-loving-it-day-14
This is great! Maybe we can talk HCA into springing for this when they Re-Do the ER…..Or should I beg Dr. Don Gibson?
There are plenty of offices that allow and even encourage this type of thing. I doubt they'd pay for it, but you might be able to convince them to let you have one.
You crack me up and I am so proud of you! I always feel like I have a personal trainer, math tutor, geography tutor, engineering tutor, and social studies tutor when I read your blogs! You're the best!
I am all of those things… and MORE! ;-P
http://i.imgur.com/wDXED.jpg Same treadmill you have. But I'm at around 3000 miles
Wow, that's a nice looking setup, and congrats on the distance! How long have you been at it?
The comments on to Washington, which sounds a lot nicer the DC version, makes the posting better. I took the Calorie counting method and I am down 5 lbs over the last 3 weeks. I can say that reading your post back in November gave inspiration to just do it. Keep up the good work.
Great, good work! I'm glad this thing is inspirational. I've had nearly 3,000 visitors since it launched, and it's great to get comments like this. I hope all is well for you guys up North!
Like the blog, hope progress continues.