{"id":49,"date":"2012-09-24T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wordynerdy\/2012\/09\/fitbit-how-i-love-thee\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T09:51:00","slug":"fitbit-how-i-love-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wordynerdy\/2012\/09\/fitbit-how-i-love-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitbit How I Love Thee!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\u201cYou\u2019re going to love this!!\u201d Scott crowed when he got home, \u201cThis is going to change your life!\u201d<\/div>\n
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The flower grows based on how active you\u2019ve been the past 3 hours<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
And he gave me. . . a pedometer.\u00a0 A very expensive pedometer that we never in a million years would have bought for ourselves, but took when his workplace offered it for free.<\/div>\n
But the Fitbit is not just a pedometer, it\u2019s also an altimeter which logs how many flights of stairs I walk, a calorie counter that shows how many calories I\u2019ve burned, and a cheerleader that flashes little messages when I pick it up after it\u2019s been lying fallow.\u00a0 Most interesting, at night, when you wear it on your non-dominant hand, it measures how well and how long you sleep.\u00a0 Plus it syncs online.<\/div>\n
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Scott was right.\u00a0 The Fitbit has changed my life AND my marriage.\u00a0 The first day, when Scott learned that I had climbed 5 more flights of stairs than him, he promptly ran up and down our stairs 6 times.<\/div>\n
According to Fitbit, I\u2019m supposed to walk 10,000 steps a day, climb 10 flights of stairs, and burn 2,184 calories.\u00a0 The steps and the calories have been quite the stretch.\u00a0 In order to hit 10,000 steps each day, I generally have to take an extra 2 mile walk downtown and back.<\/div>\n
The 2,184 calorie goal feels astronomically out of reach.\u00a0 As a middle-aged, small-boned, Asian female, I need about 1400 calories\/day to survive.\u00a0 That\u2019s dieting for most Americans. \u00a0An intensive hour-long spinning class burns 400 calories (300 according to Fitbit).\u00a0 So I\u2019d need to spin for 2 hours every day to hit that calorie goal.\u00a0 Not happening.<\/div>\n
But I have achieved some impressive milestones including:<\/div>\n