You know you're a Fitbit addict when...

[V1CK1]

• You pace the house to get to a particular figure before going to bed
• You sit down when recharging as you don't want to 'waste' any steps
• You park further away from the shops to gain extra steps

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[Sammi555]

You buy the band in different colours so you can ensure it matches various different outfits because you wouldn't dream of ever taking it off. 

[Stephen1227]

...when between bites of cereal, your ignore the morning newspaper sitting next to you in favor of surfing threads and reading posts. 

[Stephen1227]

....when you realize you just need one more post to hit 100--this being mine--and list it as further evidence of FitBit addiction. 

[Jeremiah1970]

Definitely addicted only have fb a month and doing all those

[poodles0418]

when you have to sit right next to your FitBit while it's charging don't want to move and have those steps not count. 

[philosobomb]

Zip user: I carry a package of extra watch batteries in my purse in case mine gets low!

[Stephen1227]

...when you find yourself using a decrepit grocery cart in a large grocery store that has a mind of its own, and insists on veering off to the right while you (I, just today in fact) try desperately to keep it rolling along a straight path down the isles and around shoppers using one hand--keeping the arm with my fitbit flex freely swinging--as to not risk losing credit for steps.  Embarrassing?  Well, ....maybe.  But, hey, those steps add up!   

[bf1996]

When you ask to do assignments with the most walking involved at work 🙂

[Stephen1227]

....and when you are actually happy when you don't see the cart return rack in the parking lot?of the grocery store, Walmart, Target, etc.--and are actually?elated to walk the perimeter of the entire lot as many times as necessary until you find it.? Then, you are disappointed when you finally do find it, and ask other patrons?if?you can take their carts to the return rack while your perishables spoil in your car?.?

[wrongway]

Hi Stephen, I always tie my flex around my ankle when shopping.? That way I have both hands free and it logs all my steps.(has been accurate for me and my friend who has also started doing this)

[Stephen1227]

Thank you Kathy!  Good suggestion.  Can't get cheated out of those steps! 

[sguinn75]

I go nuts if my entire screen isn't green by the end of the day! I pace around and have developed this horrendous fidgeting leg thing. I'm not a particularly good athlete but I'm about as competitive as they come.

[Sammi555]

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@Stephen1227 wrote:

...when you find yourself using a decrepit grocery cart in a large grocery store that has a mind of its own, and insists on veering off to the right while you (I, just today in fact) try desperately to keep it rolling along a straight path down the isles and around shoppers using one hand--keeping the arm with my fitbit flex freely swinging--as to not risk losing credit for steps.  Embarrassing?  Well, ....maybe.  But, hey, those steps add up!   

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Haha! The amount of times I've crashed the trolley trying to control it with just the one arm to make sure I'm not missing out on steps. Fellow shoppers must think I'm an idiot!

[sguinn75]

I do the same thing at the store!

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[SunsetRunner]

You know youre  addicted when you accidentally leave your One upstairs and you ask your husband to run up and get it so you get credit for those stairs (bribing him with stairs of his own) and he goes  

[rknick]

You know you are addicted when you sync at 10:00 at night and then check the leaderboard to find you are only a half mile behind one of your friends. You get the shoes back on and do another 2 miles.

[Sammi555]

When you have dinner plans with a friend and should be excited but instead spend the whole day wondering how you're going to compensate for the steps you're going to miss by not going for your usual evening run! 

[Stephen1227]

.....when you subtly--well, not so subtly--remove your fitbit flex from the arm the nurse is about to wrap that devise for measuring blood pressure around. You hope not to be seen gently cradling and protecting your fitbit friend in your hand as the nurse pumps the band, making it tighter until the pressure is released.

You think, "If I left my fitbit on while the blood pressure device was on the same arm,the reading would have been false--artificially high-due to the anxiety I just spared myself by protecting my little friend. All is good with the world...."

Then....you carefully return your little buddy to your wrist as the nurse walks out of the room hiding her smile. You wonder what she is thinking....but don't really care. All is right again.

[j_farrar]

LOL! Thank goodness I am not the only one. I have been known to jog in place while brushing my teeth and then going for twice as long as I need to, just to get the extra steps in!

[M148P]

You know you're a Fitbit addict when you live in a rowhouse and when you need to use the bathroom you go to downstairs/upstairs bathroom just to get the extra steps from the staircase lol