The idea of tracking one’s own fitness is nothing new, as anyone with an old pedometer will tell you. Rather than rolling my chair over to the printer to grab a printout, I stood up and walked the four feet over to it so I could log a few extra steps. I started taking the long way walking to and from my Washington, D.C., Metro stop. But after just a couple days of using Fitbit, I got hooked on the idea of keeping digital tabs on myself, and I liked looking back at my activity log over a period of time. I occasionally forgot to wear this lightweight tracking device because I was dog-sitting for a friend’s puppy and barely remembered to wear my shoes, much less Fitbit, as we dashed out the door for walks at 5:30 a.m. I’ve been using Fitbit almost nonstop for the past week. And the site has space where users add details like food and water consumption so it provides a more accurate picture of calories burned versus calories consumed. The Fitbit wirelessly sends the data to its Web site,, for storing these minute-by-minute details. I’ve been testing Fitbit, a tiny $99 device with a motion-detecting sensor that, when worn, digitally records one’s distance (walking or running), calories burned and steps taken-as well as sleep patterns.
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