Making it count

Whilst I’ve been manually keeping tabs on the exercise I’ve been doing to ensure that the calories going in are considerably lower than the calories coming out, I have not been keeping track of the smaller things, like walking to work and taking the stairs rather than the lift, purely because they feel like small efforts that ought to be made all the time anyway.

            However, with HQ deciding that they need to invest in our health, the whole team in my office have all been sent Fitbits, which can monitor everything from daily calories burnt to sleep patterns. I’m not planning to use it for anything  more than monitoring daily movement / activity, but it will be interesting to see how I stack up against the rest of our company.

There are going to be bi-weekly reviews to see who’s moving around the most (and least) and there will be little prizes for the most active. It seems unlikely that I will be topping any of the charts (Singapore is just way too hot to venture outside for too much walking around), but it’ll be fun to monitor and compare.

            Luckily I’m not very competitive, so this won’t be pushing me even harder to get out and about…much!