I’m sure if you listen to the radio or watch TV at all you’ve heard the commercials about Buzzed Driving. Well, now I’m going to tell you about buzzed walking.

I’ve been living UP since June 24, 2013. That’s when, after hearing about it from my twitter friend @ginidietrich, I got my own UP band.

The UP band can record all kinds of things but I mainly use it to record my daily steps and my sleep. I’ve set a goal of 10,000 steps per day and eight hours of sleep. And I’m incredibly fascinated by the sleep data over everything else. I really love it when it shows a larger amount of time in deep sleep over light sleep. I really like it when I reach my goal. But I digress.

The sleep goal is tough to achieve consistently and I feel like I have more control over the steps. Especially since my UP teammate and friend @sallyray5 introduced me to “house walking”. This is where you do your steps walking in your house. Some days it’s super easy to get in those 10,000 steps but on days when it’s icy or I just haven’t been as active, house walking it is. 

Buzzed walking is an extension of house walking. 🙂

You are able to set your UP band to buzz you (you feel the buzz on your wrist) when you’ve been sedentary for a certain portion of time which you can choose. I have mine set for 30 minutes.

Now, when I’m inactive and am “buzzed”, I proceed to do buzzed walking. I go downstairs, turn on the radio, put four minutes on the kitchen timer and start walking laps around the downstairs. Easy peasy. After I’m done with the walk, I’ll drink a glass of water to add to my eight glasses of water a day goal and go back to what I’m doing.

I really like this easy way of meeting my walking and water goals. If only sleep were as easy although I think I’m close to the answer for that, too! I’ll let you know. 😉