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[quote=Anonymous]Good luck!  Keep posting!!

How's it going with the Fitbit?  I found the first month that I wasn't really motivated by it.  I used it mostly as a data collection tool to see how much I was moving in a typical week, and the results were pretty humbling.  Basically, I was much more sedentary than I realized.  :-(

But after a month of watching the numbers with no motivation to change my behavior, I finally engaged with it. I set a more modest goal of 7,500 steps a day at first, and then ramped up to 10,000 when 7,500 started feeling like a given.  I'm now thinking about ramping up further to 12,000.  Anyway, I now find all sorts of ways to add more steps to my day.  Small things like walking around the block when I have a bit of downtime at work to larger things like getting into a routine (finally!) of walking 3-4 days a week for an hour at a time either on the treadmill or outside if the weather is decent.  Once I engaged, the feedback from Fitbit about my steps became surprisingly motivating.  :-)

Beyond that, my approach is to make marginally better decisions all around.  Water instead of other drinks.  Smaller portions of meat and very tiny tastes of bread, rice and pasta.  And I look for ways to add veggies and high fiber beans/lentils into everything I make.  The family hates that, so I just toss that stuff into my portion.  Tonight I mixed lentils into my turkey meat sauce and ate it for dinner over veggies and very little pasta.  Yesterday I mixed extra frozen spinach into my soup.

Good luck!  Keep reporting back.  We're cheering for you.[/quote]

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