Thank you @Alexandra100.Hello Ickihun, I'm delighted to see you have got a Fitbit. I have had mine for a while and I LOVE it. It is SO motivating! At the same time I do sympathise with your digital technology teething problems. I always find getting started with one of these devices absolute agony. In my case, I have never been able to persuade my Fitbit to sync with my desktop computer. Instead I sync with my tablet and then look at the results on my desktop because that is bigger and clearer for my aging eyes! Of course all the results are also there on the tablet, or on a phone. You don't need a CD, just download from the internet. (For synoing directly with a desktop you do need the little USB key which I should think came with your Fitbit. You don't need the key for syncing with a phone or tablet, or to look at your data on your desktop once it is in your phone .)
I suggest you set a comfortably low target for your daily and weekly steps. Then when you have succeeded at that you can increase your target. There is absolutely no point in setting yourself up for failure. Your weekly target needs to be less than your daily target x 7, to allow for problems or a rest day. You can also set targets for floors climbed ( if you walk uphill outdoors your Fitbit will measure the altitude you reach in floors.) And you can set a target for miles. You need to put in your personal data so your Fitbit can calculate how many steps you do per mile!
I have never worked out how many steps etc I do in a year, but every so often Fitbit sends me encouraging emails telling me I have earned badges, or telling me how many steps I did last week. You will have to tell your Fitbit what kind of alerts you like to receive.
Good luck, don't forget to post reports on your Fitbit.
Thanks @Snapsy.Every step will make a difference, @ickihun - I don't know anything about recommended step numbers, but given what we folks on here know - in some cases to our cost - about recommended levels of this and that (hefty pinches of salt so often required!) I would want to challenge myself with a number that is comfortable but not so much as to cause me pain, discomfort or hypoglycaemia!
Hugs. Just getting out there is a Really Good Thing.
xxx
PS Wish I could help you with the techie stuff but I'm a lass from the dark ages...
Frosty did the 5k so I only had his company for half my distance - I didn't see him afterwards so I hope he - and indeed the snowballs you mention - hadn't melted.....Hi @Snapsy . I'm seriously hoping this was some type of Xmas fun run.
If not then you guys in that neck of the woods play some very unusual games.
Sounds like you had fun. That's the most important thing.
But really overtaken by a blow up Frosty the Snowman ?
I just know I can get a mention of snowballs in this post but you're a lady so I'll spare you my dodgy sense of humour.
Did a session of 'inline reps' with the running club this evening - really good fun! We jogged in a straight line, and the person at the back had to SPRINT to the front and then slow down to a jog, and so it continued. We were on flat ground for that bit, having run down a very steep long hill to get there, and had to run back up it to get back.
Left calf is complaining a little so have been foam rolling it while simultaneous refuelling with the BEST homemade chilli my slow cooker and I have ever made.
WHY did I not realise that this is something I could have been enjoying YEARS ago?
(Exercise, I mean, not the chilli.)
Those of us who had limited ability, no clue as to 'how' and an aversion to the bullying behaviour of a PE teacher with no comprehension or understanding that athletic giftedness is not inherent really really struggled. Hated every minute at the time.Possibly, like me, you were totally put off by the majority of activities on offer in PE lessons?
That's so kind, @therower . What was really freaking me out was that it was a 'waaaaaaay too much insulin on board' hypo rather than my very mild 'common or garden' variety, and in light of yesterday morning's news I think I was subconsciously suddenly very very aware of very very low lows, and I just panicked.@Snapsy . That's a real pain in the ar*e. I think we've all done it at sometime. Times like this I really wish one of those smart ar*e experts was around to see how easy it isn't to " just have 20g carbs and you'll be fine. "
Everything for a reason though. A morning run in atrocious conditions........ a slip, twisted ankle or worse a break.
A chill, feeling bad and unable to get levels in range.
Live to fight another day
Having skipped my swim I should join in with this thread
I swam 1400m breaststroke in 36 minutes Friday evening (but skipped the gym) and took the youngest swimming on Saturday (but skipped the gym) so made up for the gym yesterday afternoon, a bit tired today after the gym but my bloods were 6.1 and slowly dropping from my Lantus basal and I didn't fancy carb loading, so came home.
I'm definitely feeling my years
Go for it5km in heavy sleet yesterday morning, 30 lengths this morning, very challenging hill reps (no arms) on nearly-ice this evening (total just over 5km inc the there-and-back run).
Roll on summer - training in the wet and cold sure ain't floating Snapsy's boat!
Turns out half of my back-of-the-pack running mates have just registered for the Brighton Marathon in April! I'm not tempted....... although there are still two club places up for grabs, apparently.
No, no and again no.
Treat it as you might a passionate love affair. That is, as a joyful, life enhancing, energising, slightly insane experience which probably won't continue forever at quite this level of intensity, but may nonetheless lead to a lifelong positive relationship!Snapsy is obsessing about exercise. I'm beginning to worry a little about my feelings around it.
20 lengths this morning. Am all set for running club later.
Thanks so much, @Alexandra100 ! I'm beginning to recognise some aspects of my relationship to food transferring to my relationship to exercise - but I am thinking the fact that I've recognised it and acknowledged it means perhaps that it isn't a 'thing'.Treat it as you might a passionate love affair. That is, as a joyful, life enhancing, energising, slightly insane experience which probably won't continue forever at quite this level of intensity, but may nonetheless lead to a lifelong positive relationship!
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