So as you know I ordered and received my FitBit  and I have learned some interesting things from it,  yet I am still not sure I trust it.  Last week was low because Greg has been away, I’ve been sick and I haven’t got my normal runs in, I haven’t made it to the gym all week and I have been driving more than usual so I think a month or two of data would be more telling then 1 and a half weeks.  However, it is interesting…. If it is correct and accurate.

Some things I have learned are:

• I am probably not eating enough
• It takes ALOT of activity to get the goal of 10,000 steps a day.
• Even days that I am busy doesn’t mean that I am active.
• I am more active than I gave myself credit for/ most days.. calorie wise..

So for that I am impressed.  I can not wrap my head around the fact that maybe just maybe I need to be eating more to lose weight, having said that I lost 1 pound since last weigh in.

One thing I am not impressed in is the customer service.  The fitbit is supposed to sync anytime you are near the base station, and still for a set amount of time.  This has not been happening for me or happening periodically.  I have had to uninstall and reinstall the software everyday to get it to sync.  When I asked for help via the community forums I got no response, when I asked for help via their customer support email I got no response.  I am still waiting for a response.  As I am typing this I received a response.  (In Short)  Seems this is a known issue and they are working on resolving it.  They sent me a link for an updated download and so far the syncing process has been working better.

So what do you think I should do?  Should I eat more?  According to Fitbit my average burn since I’ve had it is  1910 calories and my average intake is 1265.  What to do , what to do?  One thing I have to figure out is how to fuel properly for my half and all my training runs, but still eat to lose weight.  I have heard of people actually gaining weight while training for marathons and halfs.  I’m reading a new book called younger next year  (I’ll write about this in the next few days, at first I was a little offended my husband bought this for me, but looking past the fact that it was probably written for women over 50 the content is still relevant)  and I have also ordered a book from runners world called the runner’s diet.  I really hate buying books that have the word diet in the title because I don’t believe in diets, but I do believe in being informed and eating properly for my lifestyle is important to keep me going.  Anyway enough sitting time to get moving, I worked this morning and had some errands to do so that means driving so I’ve only walked 3700 steps so far today, time to go pace while I fold laundry.