FitBit, Do you have one?

Yeah, so when I began my new job one of the perks that they offered in benefits was a discount on the purchase of any version of the 'fitbit'.  I've seen lots on really unhealthy looking people wearing these things and so I was pretty pessimistic about the impact they might have on my health.  But since I could purchase the flex for only $29 (I've spent that on a bad gamble at an unknown restaurant) I went ahead an splurged for one.  It arrived quickly and I plugged it in and started using it.

Now, I must say that I literally plugged it in and started using it.  The only thing I did was set up my profile.  I didn't learn about all the bells and whistles, and didn't invest any time ready the manual.  After all, I'm of the male species.  But I will say it's relatively intuitive because most of the features I'm using - at least the ones I want to at this point.

So the thing recommended that my goal should be 10k steps per day.  Ok, whatever.  For those of you non-fitbit-users, that's about 5 miles of walking a day.  It didn't take me long to realize that my steps if I do nothing special on a work day ended up somewhere between 4k and 6k steps.

If I played racquetball in the evening (I try to do this three days per week) then that would provide an additional 5k - 7k steps.  But if I didn't I needed another way of collecting steps.

And yes, I have a dog, and yes that dog needs walking, so I started supplementing my steps for a day by walking Rocky in the evening.  Sometimes as much as an hour and a half!  But whatever it took to get to 10k that's what I did.

Good right?  I felt good about myself.

I also am tracking how much sleep I'm getting, and how "restful" that sleep is.  When I sleep I sleep hard, so that wasn't an issue.  But seeing how much sleep I get was a different story.  I'm averaging about 6 hours and 40 minutes of sleep a night.  Closer to 6 during the week, and between 7 and 8 on the weekends.  I feel pretty good about that also.

Now to the food and water plan.  I may decide to start tracking the amount of water I drink a day.  I think that would be a good reminder.  I'm confident I could drink the required amount each day.  The food plan, that would be different.  I'm worried that the alarms will be going off with the amount of calories I put into my pie hole each day.  But I'm going to take this step, just not sure when.

Any chance I can get my two brothers to get a Fitbit flex and join in on the fun?