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20x you recognize this if you also wear a Fitbit on your wrist

Recently, the mornings at the editorial office start at my desk. At least, the coffee moment of May and me. That conversation usually begins from May's side with: ‘So, how many do you have?’ And she is not talking about the number of matches on Inner Circle that I scored the night before or the appointments that are scheduled for that day. Since last week, I, like May, am hugely Team Fitbit and we have started batting. The coffee breaks and lunch breaks suddenly revolve around calories, sleep cycles, and heart rhythms. I find that really fun, you understand. But of course, it doesn't stop there. If you, like us, are intensely addicted to your Fitbit, you will surely recognize the twenty points below.

  1. You feel like you've lived a day under a rock if you've forgotten to wear your Fitbit.
  2. The K-feeling that creeps over you when you realize you've left your Fitbit at home. Half an hour of running for nothing...
  3. The strap of your Fitbit always matches your outfit.
  4. You suddenly become the coffee lady at work and provide everyone with hot drinks all day long. Because: extra steps.
  5. You suddenly deviate from your standard route to work to get extra steps.
  6. You walk a few laps around your house in the evening to reach your step count.
  7. You get off one stop earlier to take a few extra steps. Even if it's raining like crazy or your heels are sky high.
  8. Everyone thinks you constantly need to go to the bathroom when you march back and forth and from left to right again. You know better.
  9. Weekends are your best friend because then you can make meters all day long.
  10. You are more afraid of losing your Fitbit than your iPhone. Okay, for the sake of argument, right?.
  11. If you've saved your PR, the whole office knows right away. Because that needs to be shared.
  12. You go to bed grumpy if you haven't reached your 10,000 steps.
  13. Your colleagues think you're crazy when you are tapping like mad on your Fitbit because it isn't responding.
  14. You wonder how you ever lived without a Fitbit.
  15. You don't understand why you don't get steps while cycling. So you wear your tracker on your ankle, so at least something gets registered.
  16. Suddenly, number 1 on your bucket list is to reach 100,000 steps in a day.
  17. Going out has never been so fun. At five in the morning, you've already reached half of the total number of steps.
  18. You get immediately irritated when you find out in the morning that your colleague has already taken 2000 more steps. The struggle.
  19. You develop a noticeable phobia of elevators. No way, I'll take the stairs (gulp, 18 floors high).
  20. Suddenly, you think not in meters but in steps. Our office, for example, is 800 steps from my tram stop. And from home to Zara, I take 500 steps. A new outfit gives me a whopping 1000 extra steps. Double winning.

I'm going for a little walk. Adios!