Don’t need the gym!

[Soraya_PMR]

My son bought me a Fitbit for my birthday last May. This morning I was awarded this ‘Cloud badge’. A bit daft, but then I got to thinking, 8,000 floors in 10 months, that’s an average of around 25 flights of stairs a day! Go me!

No wonder my thighs scream!

I don’t use much on the Fitbit (calories, fluid intake, weight) but I do keep an eye on my sleep, weekly exercise and hours with 250 steps per hour. The hours form a definite pattern, and although I don’t consider myself to be stiff in the mornings, most of my ‘around the house’ activity happens in the afternoons and evenings. Maybe I should show my rheumi? Oh-ha-ha, now I’ve made myself laugh 😉

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

Well done you!

[Soraya_PMR in reply to DorsetLady]

Thanks! A 4 storey house helps of course.

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to Soraya_PMR]

True! Bungalow doesn’t help with steps!

[HeronNS in reply to DorsetLady]

I have two flights of stairs from our front entrance or four flights from our parking level, so one way or another I do climb stairs a bit every day. The layout of our unit is much longer than the house was so I do get a surprising number of steps in, but they are on the level.

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to HeronNS]

I do try and take steps when I can (and now that I can again!) - they are good exercise.

[SheffieldJane]

Well done Soraya, what a thoughtful boy you have. I was completely hooked on mine for over a year. I let it slide in a self destructive slump after the family departed to Australia. Time to pick up and get on with it I think. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[Soraya_PMR in reply to SheffieldJane]

Yes! Get it out, dust it off, and start again!

[bunnymom]

I've hated to part with the money for one and I'm not techy. Are they hard to use? See I got an Avatar up? Computer would post it but not my phone.

[Soraya_PMR in reply to bunnymom]

Well done with the avatar 👍🏼

My son set it up for me, said it was easy! Daily use is easy peasy, just click on the Fitbit icon on your phone. Updates as it goes.

[yogabonnie]

Love it!! There is an app called STEPBET which connects with FITBIT and you pay $10-40 depending on the game and then you have to get a certain number of steps in every day with a day off and you WIN back your money plus some more!! I have actually made about $100 on it!! GREAT incentive.

[Soraya_PMR in reply to yogabonnie]

That sounds good, but don’t actually think I’d win any back ATM. My daily goal is 10k steps and I don’t achieve it very often.

[Hidden in reply to Soraya_PMR]

What do you think your max average steps are? I had 10000 as a starter but never reached it. Reduced to 5,000 which I can attain on good days. But with Fitbit I counted the stairs as increased steps. My 3 Fitbit s have all broken as warranty runs out and this is very common. I got an Huawei fit and for 30quid that matched my Huawei phone. All the same bells and whistles except for climbing. It's more waterproof that the titbits and I can swim in it. I don't think I could function fully without it. I like knowing what day s I did what.

[Soraya_PMR in reply to Hidden]

About 7,000 a day. When I had the New Year ‘flu less than half that. It’s very indicative of ‘me’ on any day, and can show if my reductions work and if I pick up on new lower doses. Also like the average time for a mile, that really shows me how I’m doing.

I do take it off for showering and tend to forget to put it back on, which mucks up my averages somewhat 🙄

Will a Huawei fit different phones?

(Check your spelling Hidden . Mine are quite waterproof 💦 thanks for the 😁)

[Hidden in reply to Soraya_PMR]

😂😂😂 autocorrect strikes again

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Hidden]

I thought autocorrect went for real words? Not switching f's and t's...

[Hidden in reply to PMRpro]

It changed it once higher in the message but I caught that one and thought it would put in dictionary. Of course they updated keyboard software and nothing is working. I am sticking to that😁

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Hidden]

I'll believe you

[Marlenec]

I've had Fitbit alta Hr for 2 years. Bought it when I refused Alendronic Acid as Dexa scan showed good bones, and wanted to keep them that way. So I try to do at least 15,000 steps every day. I don't do much else though!

Mine does not count floors, but I find useful for sleep patterns. I recently got a trophy for "walking the Nile" and lost the 1.5 stones I gained with Pred. I like it so I can keep track, but if you wave your arms around wildly it may count them as steps! Hope you keep it up and improve.

[Sandradsn in reply to Marlenec]

15000 that's a lot Marlenec! I thought I was doing well at 7000 a day! Love my fitbit!😊

[Marlenec in reply to Sandradsn]

You are doing very well anyway! Yes it is a lot and that's my min. I often do 20s and 25s and two 30s. But I built up slowly though - that's why I love my Fitbit, there'd be no way I could keep track otherwise. Keep going when you can! ⛹🏿

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Marlenec]

No use for Italians then?

[Soraya_PMR in reply to PMRpro]

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[Marlenec in reply to PMRpro]

Well one conversation = One million steps! 😉

[Pongo13]

Love my Fitbit!

[piglette]

My sister has a Fitbit that seems to think she is walking when she is knitting. If she walks backwards it thinks she is just sitting!

[Hidden in reply to piglette]

They all seem to do that. I just take it as arm exercise lol

[Rosina1871]

I have a Fitbit too and find it useful to log sleep pattern, heart rate as well as exercise

[Purple-Owl]

I have an Apple watch that counts my steps, and bugs me to get up when I sit too long at my computer. I got it because it is the only watch that is also a stand-alone phone. That means I could make an emergency call if I needed to, even if I hadn't got my iphone with me.

[JulianJ]

Well done