Last month, my wife bought two "FitBit"sone for herself and one for me, and to be honest, at first I felt that she got me one just to avoid any comment that a husband may utter to his shopper wife. I wasn't sure if it will match my work dress code (the formal one) and if I will get used to it.
Before FitBit, I wasn't sleeping with a watch on, whenever I am back from the office I used to take off my watch to enjoy a watch free feeling especially that It was easy to look the time up on my mobile which is either in my hand or very very close to me.
Two weeks later, things changed and I overcame the resistance to change feeling that we most of the time have, I officially became a "Fitbit person"and I decided that "FitBit is the one and only". Then I went to the shelf where I usually keep my three other non-FitBit watches and pulled out theircrowns (time adjusters) announcing their death, and naming FitBit as the new Queen of watches.
At that time their purchase value and brand name stopped being of any importance to me althoughthey are of very well-known brands and the cost of anyone one of them may easily be double or even triple the cost of the FitBit model I have.
FitBit changed my life, how ??? By creating an ongoing feeling of competition towards myself and against my wife. I have to walk my 10,000 steps as this is my personal daily challenge, and I want to beat my wife's daily steps count; and no need to mention that she is trying to do the same. So now when we call to talk, after the salut part we started to ask : did you hit your target for today ???
FitBit does much more than counting daily steps, it counts floors climbed, fat burned, heart rate, hours slept, weight history plus many more. It also gives you weekly statistical data showing your average performance which can be easily compared against your set target or the previous week results. In addition to that, It helped me the most with resolving my short sleeping wrong pattern. They say that the first rule for hitting a goal is to clearly define it, that's exactly what FitBit did, it clearly defined and recorded how many hours Iwas sleeping, and by continuously tracking that I improved my average sleeping time from 4-5 hours to 6-7 hours a day.
One last thing it helped me with was the "alerting message"it sends. I am workaholic, working not less than 11 hours a day - six days a week, during those long working hours I used to forget myself enjoying my work addict lifestyle, most of it was sitting continuously working for chunks of 3-4 hours which is not the case anymore,thanks to FitBit. Now it sends reminding messages asking me to move or of how many more steps I still need to pass the extra milestone of my set 10,000 steps target. I also changed my sitting working patterns, every one hour I stand up, move around trying to do something outside the office getting closer to my daily set target. |
