JJ Virgin recommends walking after dinner as part of your daily steps. A post-meal walk reduces blood sugar spikes, improves digestion, and helps you sleep better, she says. Aim for 8,000 steps daily, with a few thousand of those after eating.
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walking after your evening meal. And I especially emphasize after your evening meal. Now, I want you to walk more all throughout the day. 8,000 steps is kind of that minimum baseline. Goal is really 12,000 or more. But I want you to put some of that movement after your evening meal because when you do that, you're gonna have a couple great things that happen. Number 1, it's gonna improve your digestion. Number 2, it's gonna lower your blood sugar response to the meal. And number 3, it's gonna help you sleep better. So that's like the trifecta. So let's try to get in even a couple thousand steps after your evening meal.