i'm obsesssed?

I must admit I was having a really difficult time coming up with a topic today. Walking to the dentist in the bitter cold just had no appeal for a story.

Earlier this morning I called Bonnie, but her phone was busy. When she called back I was busy. We were playing a lovely game of telephone tag. I had just finished my work and was going to head off to the dentist when the phone rang. It was Bonnie.

I told her about her Girl Scout cookies being here, and that I couldn't talk I was going to walk to the dentist. She pretty much told me to drive it was freaking cold out. I was trying to explain that it was walk now, or walk later, but I had to walk. That's when she called me obsessed with counting my steps.

I am not obsessed.

On my computer dictionary obsessed is defined as "preoccupy or fill the mind of (someone) continually, intrusively, and to a troubling extent:" That is clearly not me. Now I will admit that there was a period when Angel first got her Fitbit that I was a bit obsesssed, but it wore off.

There was also a period where I had my goals set too high that I was getting a little stressed. But I lowered them. Making 10K steps a day is not an obsession — it is the recommended goal of a lot of very important health organizations.

Since when is striving to make a reasonable, recommended goal, an obsession? A goal, which I fail at 70% of the time since December.

Is it because sometimes I walk around the house, or in the halls of a hotel? No, that's not obsession either. That's being close to a goal and achieving it with 10 minutes of extra work. What's wrong with that?

Sadly, when Barb called I told her I was upset that Bonnie called me obsessed. She laughed and said I was.

WTF?

Does everyone think I spend my days looking at my FItbit? Quite the contrary. I hardly check it.  Generally at lunch time, and late in the evening. At lunch to see how far I have to go. Late evening to see if I'm close or completed my goal. Sometimes I look after a walk. Especially this month when I am blogging everyday. I need something to write about. I look at the computer maybe once a week so I can enter the information into my president challenge. I don't think that is obsession. 

This is the last time I will talk about or post about steps. Or tracking. Or pedometers of any kind. They'll be no more posts that I've achieve a huge milestone. Even if they send me beautiful graphics.

Now off to write the boring dentist post.