I'm Having A Fit..Bit

Unless you live under a rock,  I'm assuming you've heard of a little device called a "FITBIT".  It's a tracking tool for keeping track of your footsteps, water intake, stair climbing, food intake, and many other things such has how you sleep and any other exercises you may participate in.  I'd been thinking of getting one for awhile.  Many of my coworkers and friends have one.  Many places of work insist you have one to keep insurance rates lower.  I know the Cleveland Clinic demands all employees to wear  one if you want lower rates.  There are many styles and most folks get one that looks like a bracelet that you wear on your wrist.  You can also wear it on your ankle...although that reminds me of those tracking devices on prisoners.  Mine is tiny.  It's a FitBit One and it clips on clothing.  I'm not allowed to wear jewelry on my hands or arms so I usually clip it on a sock by my ankle.  I didn't know if actually wearing something like this would be a benefit.  I couldn't understand how it would make a difference.  Well, I have to say that it has made a difference.  It encourages me...OK, it really guilts me...into walking and moving more.  I set my goal like most people who have one, at 10,000 steps a day.  That's suppose to be 5 miles.  I find that I'm checking it to see how I'm doing and if I'm not getting steps in I push myself to get off my keester and move.  The funny thing is I never knew how much walking I did at work. Being a scrub nurse has me standing most of my day at the operating room table.  But I never took into account the running from room to room, the hauling of case carts from the OR to the drop off for cleaning, the mopping and cleaning and stocking of rooms at the end of the day.  Running for supplies and running for the bathroom! Ha!  Well, most days I have about 7,000 steps before heading home.  Walking the dog and going up and down my stairs at home fills in the rest.  In fact, most days I'm at 14,000 before hitting the hay.   Today was no exception.  I was even able to leave a little early and still had that many steps.  We're having a little early Spring weather and our temps have been mild. It was 70de today.   After getting home I grabbed Chubbs and we took off to the cemetery for a nice walk.  We even ran into Eddy and Jordan there.  Jack works late on Tuesday so I did more walking up to the Creepy Woods with Chubbs.  He loves it up there.

Yes, I see you!  The warm weather hasn't brought out the green around here yet.

As you can see from these trees it's still bare branches.

But looking close at my lilac bushes I see signs of budding...please don't get too excited little lilacs, this is Ohio and snow and cold can come any time till June.

The grass isn't too green either but atleast I don't have to mow yet!  What was nice was this picture was taken around 6pm and it's not dark out!  Sunday we turn our clocks forward an hour so this is what 7pm will look like in a week.  That gives me more time for moving and adding more steps to my day. 

Maybe I should get Chubbs his own FitBit so he can track his runs in the woods!  The only thing I didn't know about FitBit was it's ability to communicate with me. I was a bit creeped out when I looked at it the other morning and it said: "Hug Me Kathy"...Huh?  The other night it said: "Goodnight Kathy"...OOOKKKK?  I looked at it right before doing this post and it said: "Smooches Kathy".  Hmmm...maybe it could teach my bathroom scale a few tricks...like how to move that dial lower.  Smooches indeed.