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I lost 35 lbs my wife lost more but she would not want me to say the number! After Hurricane Sandy we had to walk up and down 36 flights of stairs because our

by kator 12y ago

I lost 35 lbs my wife lost more but she would not want me to say the number! After Hurricane Sandy we had to walk up and down 36 flights of stairs because our building lost power. We made 36 flights very quickly and my heart rate (Heart Rate iPhone app) returned to normal very quickly. (Sorry not going to share too much here lol). If we had tried this before we would have been DOA half the way. We made several trips up and down over the course of a couple days and we had to walk from downtown to mid-town for many things because so much of the area was without power.

foobarqux 12y ago
Since you got the fitbit or since you decided to start exercising?
- varelse 12y ago
  I've exercised regularly since the age of 22 when my ballerina girlfriend dumped me for someone effectively identical to me in every major way except that he was ripped and he could dance (and oh yeah, Atari ST versus Amiga). He and I have even indirectly intersected over the years. That event was both heartbreaking and catalytic for me. I have been a fitness freak ever since. "Big things have small beginnings" to quote David from _Prometheus_. Anyway, the Fitbit uncovered that I wasn't walking enough even though I had a pulse of 50 or so and all my vital signs were more or less awesome. My response was to address that immediately. But that does not seem to be the norm. The norm (at least in America) is to return to denial. A solution for that IMO is the killer wearable business model.
  - foobarqux 12y ago
    To be clear, you lost 35 lbs after getting and as a result of the fitbit?
    - varelse 12y ago
      In my case, 13 pounds, and yes 100% directly attributable to the mindful state induced by wearing the fitbit. But as I've said in my other two posts in this thread, my response to the information it provided does not seem to be the norm. Or as the old joke goes: How many psychoanalysts does it take to change a light bulb? One, but the light bulb has to want to change. Devices like the fitbit offer you either the blue pill or the red pill. Which one you take is up to you.
  - charlieflowers 12y ago
    Well, you probably had the Amiga 1000, as I did. We jumped in early and suffered for it. They shitcanned the 1000, and it cost you a ballerina. Somehow you overcame the bitterness and turned it into a positive.

by kator 12y ago

foobarqux 12y ago

Since you got the fitbit or since you decided to start exercising?

varelse 12y ago
I've exercised regularly since the age of 22 when my ballerina girlfriend dumped me for someone effectively identical to me in every major way except that he was ripped and he could dance (and oh yeah, Atari ST versus Amiga). He and I have even indirectly intersected over the years. That event was both heartbreaking and catalytic for me. I have been a fitness freak ever since. "Big things have small beginnings" to quote David from _Prometheus_. Anyway, the Fitbit uncovered that I wasn't walking enough even though I had a pulse of 50 or so and all my vital signs were more or less awesome. My response was to address that immediately. But that does not seem to be the norm. The norm (at least in America) is to return to denial. A solution for that IMO is the killer wearable business model.
- foobarqux 12y ago
  To be clear, you lost 35 lbs after getting and as a result of the fitbit?
  - varelse 12y ago
    In my case, 13 pounds, and yes 100% directly attributable to the mindful state induced by wearing the fitbit. But as I've said in my other two posts in this thread, my response to the information it provided does not seem to be the norm. Or as the old joke goes: How many psychoanalysts does it take to change a light bulb? One, but the light bulb has to want to change. Devices like the fitbit offer you either the blue pill or the red pill. Which one you take is up to you.
- charlieflowers 12y ago
  Well, you probably had the Amiga 1000, as I did. We jumped in early and suffered for it. They shitcanned the 1000, and it cost you a ballerina. Somehow you overcame the bitterness and turned it into a positive.