The Fitbit Experience
My daughter brought a fitbit back from China and gave it to me. Directions are in Chinese.I wouldn't consider myself a real fit person by any means but I'm fit, healthy with sound mind. I didn't realize when one retires they may or may not walk as much. Not having any idea how many steps in a day I take, I answered the fitbits goal of 2000 steps, my first goal. I remember my grandson gasping ONLY 2000 steps? First clue that isn't many steps but an easy goal to reach.
I figured out how to adjust my goal to 10 thousand steps a day. I learned that can be a little tough on me but 8,000 is a goal I could get to easier. I jump on the exercise bike but the damn fitbit thinks I'm cheating and won't give me any steps for it. Instead of hating how long the walk is to see Dad, I think yay I'm getting steps.
The last couple weeks I've grinned on my way to bed when I looked at my wrist and see the figure climbing higher every day, It was 13,000 the day before I lost it. Mom told me to call the restaurant to see if they found it but for some reason I didn't. I thought about buying another one on Amazon but thought I should wait a few days to see if it pops up in one of the two cars I was in, maybe I would call the restaurant and search every nook and cranny around me. I gave in to my impulse to go ahead and buy another one on Amazon so I could have instructions in English, that's my justification and I'm sticking to it.
Couple a days ago Amazon delivered the English fitbit just when Mom calls to tell me not to buy one as she found mine in her backseat. The Last couple of days I have a fitbit on each wrist and now I can't tell which one is accurate. My old one is telling me I walk a lot and the one from Amazon is saying Not!
pffft ugh
Comments (11)
Jim I'm going no place fast on my stationary bike. My outside bike needs a tire.
Now living on a boat I dont walk as much as I should but at least Im doing a lot of swimming.
Colour me impressed, anyway. I walk the dog twice a day but she's old and doesn't demand distance.
When I was told that all men, women and children should be doing a minimum of 10k steps a day, I nearly died of shock. I thought I would never ever teach that heady figure
But you'd be amazed at how much you can walk when you have to. The fitbit has changed my life totally. I walk everywhere now.
As for the counting of steps on different devices, when I changed frim the Flex 2 to the Charge 2, I wore both fir a few days to see if they measured the same way. They are not exact. Thete is sbout a 500 step difference. That doesn't bother me though, I am still walking more than I used to either way.
I have the health app on my phone that does the same thing and more. Love it when at 5pm it tells me my goal of 10.000 steps is done.
......so let me brag.