Hmm

[telophase]

I washed my Fitbit today.






The Fitbit is a fancy pedometer with the same sort of tech that the Wii uses to measure your motion. I managed to forget to unclip it from my bra before throwing it in the wash today.

It tracks various things--I'd have posted the Steps Taken graph instead except that the Calories Burned graph is more colorful. :D (It also thinks I climbed 4 floors during the time in the washing machine. Toby and I find what it tracks as floors amusing.)

I have high hopes of it surviving - as you can see, it was in contact with the base station and updating through its trip, and as I buried it in dry white rice to sit overnight and dry out, the display flashed at me like normal. Poking about on the intartubes reveals that it's a bit more likely to survive a trip through an high efficiency machine like we have than a normal one. Fingers crossed!

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[matildarose.livejournal.com]

Also, the reason I asked is that I like the idea of something that tracks me as I go, just so I can see how many calories I spend at, say, work, instead of manually putting it in and trying to average down.

Plus there's a game aspect to it that might make me exercise more. STEPMANIA.... MANIA

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Quite often we'll look at it before bed, realize there's only a couple of hundred steps to the next milestone, and leg it around the house in circles until it ticks over. XD