So after bad mouthing my fitbit yesterday, I LOST it today!!
I was busy with work and painting my grooming shop, and know roughly how many steps I get at work during the day so really didn't need to check it.
I get home after work and grocery shopping and take out my phone to sync it to my fitbit and it doesn't sync. I quickly go to look at it only to discover it's not there!! For some reason it's been getting jostled a little loose lately, and had fallen off once before on another day but I noticed it right away. I texted my mom that I lost it and she asked when I had had it. I told her that I had put it on in the morning but hadn't checked it during the day so I had no idea when I had had it last. I immediately went back to my vehicle and drove to work. I turned my phone app on so I could see if it would sync as I was searching so I would know that I was getting close. My shops a bit of a mess due to the fact that we are painting so a lot of places for it to hide. I searched the entire place, including sticking my phone into the vacuum canister to ensure it didn't get sucked up as we were vacuuming. No dice, it never synced and I didn't see anything. I also checked outside my shop on the line I took to get to and from my car for the day. Nothing.
So then I had to go to the grocery store. I asked at customer service if anyone had turned it in, but they didn't. My worst fear was that either it had fallen off while in the parking lots and was crushed by a car, or someone had just picked it up and taken it. I again tried to use my phone to help me search, walking along slightly bent over to get my phone closer to the ground, man did I get some weird looks! Heard someone say 'what the hell?!' as I walked by, and another actually asked me what I was doing haha.
Well, I had no luck in the grocery store. I then remembered that I had gone to the drugstore next to my shop for a few things during the day, so I drove back to my shop and searched where I went in the drugstore and asked the lady at the front if someone had turned something in. Again I left empty handed.
I then had one last hope and thought. Maybe I had just THOUGHT I put it on in the morning, because I put it on every morning, but actually hadn't. I drove back to my house and took the stairs up to check the stairwell, nothing there. I was thinking, usually I would have left my fitbit in the bathroom where I normally change so why would it have not synced if that's where I had left it since I was, uh hem... on the toilet when I had tried to sync my phone earlier. I got home, went right to the bathroom and it wasn't there
Before I went on this wild goose chase I had put a load of laundry in the washer, it hit me that maybe I had actually forgotten to take my fitbit off my night shirt, and my night shirt was in the washer. Find my night shirt in there and low and behold, there's my fit bit! Still clipped on tight! I pray as I hit the button to see if it was still alive... it worked!!! It survived a full wash cycle in my washer!! Hurray!!
I was so worried I would have to shell out another 100 or so bucks for another one, then be without one for a while!
However the search did stress me out today and I didn't have the best day. I have no idea my steps (though searching for it all over certainly would have added up to quite a few!) or stairs or miles of cals burned, but I would say I likely ate at or below maintenance today.
I didn't do any additional walking, and didn't eat great. Not horrendous, but not great.
Finished just under 2100 cals, but I wanted to have a good day as I know I won't eat great due to camping all this weekend.
). I THINK what I'm gonna try to do is do one day making sure I get all my steps in, then do a jillian DVD the next day, while trying to get maybe 7000 steps in. It's amazing how much it often takes to even get it to 7000. I will have to see what those days look like. I mostly should focus on my calorie burn, especially those days, than my steps.