If you're anything like me, the minute you bought your Fitbit, or one of the other million fitness trackers there are, you flaunted it everywhere and felt like a boss. It became your world. That first week you were so dedicated it wasn't even funny. There are two types of people when it comes to Fitbit: the ones who get it and don't really do much other than let it do its own thing and then there are the ones, like myself, who use every single aspect of it and are totally, 100% addicted. I asked some of my Fitbit loving friends what they love most about their tracker and there were 10 similarities between us addicts that I think we don't always realize.
1. Meeting your step goal is your top priority.
You love watching your steps rack up throughout the day but when 10 o'clock rolls around you start to panic if you're still way under your goal. You start doing laps around your house and when that's not enough you even contemplate putting your Fitbit on your dog to get steps.
2. You sync your tracker to the app just like you refresh Instagram or Twitter.
Syncing your dashboard every three minutes (even if you're sitting) just to see if you burned any more calories or magically got a step.
3. You suddenly care about your sleep patterns
Before you got your Fitbit, you probably never realized how long you were actually sleeping and, especially, how many times you were restless throughout the night. Well not that your Fitbit conveniently tracks your sleeping patterns you always make sure to go to bed early enough so you can wake up with that green star.
4. You won't take your Fitbit off for anything (unless it needs to be charged and that is only done when you don't have to walk)
When your Fitbit is charging you make every effort to lay in your bed and not move to much so you aren't missing too many valuable burned calories. You certainly WILL NOT get up for anything, absolutely anything. Steps are far too valuable to miss.
5. Challenges with your friends get pretty heated.
Your biggest pet peeve is when people wait until the end of the day to sync with the challenge. You realize that your friend has 500 more steps than you and it's over. How dare they get more steps than you. The next morning you walk around your house a few times to make sure you're back on top.
6. You can never decide which goal is more important
Are steps, calories, miles, stairs or activity minutes more important to you? Some days you just have to pick one but there is nothing more satisfying than when your dashboard lights up all green. Pure beauty.
7. You never leave home without your Fitbit.
The saddest thing ever is when you're out shopping or at work, look down and realize you forgot to put your Fitbit on. All those steps for nothing.
8. Green is your favorite color, red is your enemy.
when your dashboard lights up green, its magical. You've reached every single goal for the day and you can rest easy knowing you are super healthy and awesome. But when red creeps into your calorie dashboard because you just had to eat that extra scoop of ice cream and you hadn't burned enough calories yet you shed a tear.
9. Walking is your favorite thing to do now
Those days of laying on your couch are over, until you reach your step goal for the day that is. You volunteer to take the dog for a walk, go grocery shopping and do yard work just to get steps in.
10. You want everyone to know you have a Fitbit.
Slipping something about Fitbit into casual conversation is exhilarating. You love any time you get to talk about how wonderful and convenient it is.
