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 😉
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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.
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. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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.
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.
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 😁)
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😁
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.
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! ⛹🏿
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.
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