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FitBit Fanatic

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El Mirage, Arizona

Like bazillions is other people, I recently bought/received a FitBit.

I’m using it for motivation to move more and hopefully lose weight.

As of now, I’m moving more, but apparently part of my movement is toward the refrigerator because I’m not losing weight. 🙂

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It has been fascinating to see how many steps and miles I put on my FitBit on a given day.

A goal of at least 10,000 steps isn’t too hard to reach if I take Sophie for a couple of extra long walks each day.

Playing pickleball adds steps exponentially. The other day I had over 7.5 miles logged during nine games played. And then I crashed… 🙂

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My highest daily total: 21,014 for 9.49 miles. My lowest: 4,399 for 1.99 miles.

Carol recently had the flu and logged a whopping 700 steps on a sick day. One of these days, I’m go to see how low I can go. 🙂

I have no idea how accurate my FitBit is, but for a data geek like me it’s a lot of fun…

For those of you who are FitBit fanatics like I am, you might want to read this tongue-in-cheek essay in The New Yorker by David Sedaris: Stepping Out. (It’s long, but it’s hilarious!)

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6 thoughts on “FitBit Fanatic”

  1. I love my Vivo Fit, when I actually wear it. I lost 8 pounds wearing it, tracking along with MyFitnessPal.com . I feel great and excited my “thinner” clothes fit me again. I actually had to go to Good Will and get the next bigger size, if I wanted to be reasonable about my weight gain and be comfortable. Yippee, I got rid of “those” at Good Will for the next gal that just doesn’t want to buy the next size, but to be comfortable she must. VivoFit, you are my friend.

  2. Hey, I have something similar to that! They are more like goggles except they are completely black and keep me in total darkness.
    They are called ” Ignorance Is Bliss” glasses!!!!!!!

    1. Giggles, Sharon. I’d bet that you put at least three miles on at work each morning. And that’s just your legs. Your arms probably move five miles!

  3. It is fun to track and with temps in the mid 60’s here next week, lots of stepping going on! If only to escape my family from griping!

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