Meet the Grandma Who Can Probably Walk Circles Around You (Video!)
https://blog.fitbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/TGW_short2.mp4 When Sylvia L., 83, walks, she compares herself to “The Little Engine that Could.” Despite several recent health setbacks—a burst...
View ArticleThis Dad Got Healthier—and Ended Up With a Surprising Bonus
Neil W.’s son, Oliver, is 15 years old. That’s the same age Neil was when his own father suffered a fatal heart attack. After finding out that he inherited his dad’s high cholesterol, Neil began his...
View ArticleTracking My Heart Rate Helped Save My Life: One Woman’s Incredible Story
Photo: Janine Gelineau, courtesy of UConn Health Two years ago Pat L., 74, got herself a Fitbit Charge HR as a retirement gift. “I’d been sitting at a desk staring at a computer for far too long and...
View ArticleMotivation and Accountability Helped This Man Lose 199 Pounds
Everyone has those weeks when they can’t seem to get with the program—one day you crush your fitness goals, the next you seem to lose all motivation. Next time that happens, try to remember Neal B., a...
View ArticleHeart Health is a Marathon for This Fitbit User, Not a Sprint
Just hours after undergoing surgery for abdominal hernias last year Dennis W., 68, asked his wife to bring something to the hospital for him: his Fitbit Flex. “I had worn it faithfully for almost three...
View ArticleIntroducing Find Your Reason: 5 Life-Changing Fitbit Stories—What’s Yours?
Over the past 10 years, thousands of you have written to Fitbit to share your stories—tales of heart-wrenching physical, mental, and emotional challenges that you overcame little by little through...
View ArticleThis Fitbit User Shared Her Reason for Getting Healthy. Now You Can, Too!
The moment when playing tag with the kids doesn’t leave you winded. The day your doc says you can come off the meds. The finish line you’ve been training for, triumphantly crossed. There are so many...
View ArticleNew Zealand Woman Proves Diabetes Doesn’t Have to Derail Your Life
Rachel W.’s success story is heart-wrenchingly inspiring (watch it here if you haven’t already). After being diagnosed with type-2 diabetes, she turned her life around, dropping 79 pounds, and...
View ArticleThe Secret to Setting SMART New Year’s Resolutions That Stick
Now that the presents have been unwrapped and the champagne drunk, it’s time to start thinking about your New Year’s resolutions. As a Fitbit user, the idea of goal-setting likely isn’t new to you....
View ArticleOne Fitbit User Takes Back His Health, One Step At A Time
Barry Parkes always said 300 pounds would be his limit. As a younger man, Parkes admitted he was pretty inactive. He never worked out, and he never ate quite right. In fact, he never even walked around...
View ArticleEven Jens Voigt Broke His Golden Rule Once—Here’s His Comeback Story
Looking for a good laugh? You’ve come to the right article. Read on for a chuckle taken at my own personal expense (and I don’t recommend trying this at home). It all started on August 17, when I...
View ArticleEasy But Clever Ways To Stay Healthy And Hydrated
If you or anyone you know has ever suffered from heat stroke, then you know just how serious it can be. Not only that, but dehydration is a major cause of daytime fatigue, so drinking water regularly...
View ArticleThis Fitbit User Followed His Heart to a Healthier Lifestyle—Find Out How
By Tyler Rinko, as told to Ethan Watters Pretty much every time I would get a checkup at the doctor, they would note that my heart rate was high. I honestly didn’t know if that was something...
View ArticleHow This Fitbit User Found Serendipity, and Better Health, Through Better Habits
By Cathy Brooks, as told to Ethan Watters In the spring of 2012, I was done. For 20 years or so I had worked in Silicon Valley doing PR and I was burned out. I wasn’t sleeping well or getting enough...
View ArticleHow This Fitbit User Became Her Own Health Advocate
I’ve had a Fitbit for over ten years. I started with an Alta when my company offered a discount on health insurance to encourage people to make healthy lifestyle choices. One of those ways was through...
View ArticleHow This Longtime Fitbit User Learned That Wellness is a Journey, Not a Race
Over the years, I’ve changed my view of how to achieve health and well-being. When I was a younger man, I ran marathons and even a 50-mile ultra-marathon. I remember one half marathon in particular....
View ArticleFind Out How This 20-Something Used Her Fitbit Data to Make a Life-saving...
By Meagan Seeley, as told to Ethan Watters It’s amazing how easy it can be to overlook critical signals your body may be sending. A little bit of data about what is happening in your body can help...
View ArticleDiscover How This Fitbit User Improved Her Mental Health—and Her Life—with...
When I first got my Fitbit Luxe about six months ago, I expected to use it exclusively to track and measure my fitness routines. I thought it could help me train for a bodybuilding competition this...
View ArticleHow Kevin Sanders’ Fitbit Helped Him Survive a “Widowmaker” Heart Attack
About a year ago, I was working in the yard doing some hedge trimming when an unusual feeling of weakness came over me. I thought at first that I had just overdone it, so I decided to stop, take a...
View ArticleHow Janine Lee Used Her Fitbit to Help Fight Insomnia
I’ve struggled with insomnia since high school. I had trouble both falling asleep and staying asleep and then on the weekends, I’d sometimes sleep past noon. It was almost like I was becoming...
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