Like I Needed a New Thing to Obsessively Track ...

[jedibuttercup]

So, one of the things I got for Christmas in 2017 was a Fitbit Charge 2. My aunt has one; her two daughters both have one; some of their BFFs have one; my BFF has one; my mom bought one a couple months later. Natch, this results in my being challenged all the time.

NGL, that contributed on more than one occasion to last year's general exhaustion. OTOH, sometimes it was a boost to feel like I'd at least accomplished something in any given week? Anyway, I just got my Year in Review email for 2018:



No wonder I've been destroying athletic shoes to the tune of three pair in the last year and a half. My arches are high enough I pretty much have to spend at least $70 to get a pair that don't kill my feet; but it still seemed a little excessive. But they do say you're supposed to get a new pair every five hundred miles or so.....

Comments

[cornerofmadness]

Places to save money is not on shoes if you can help it. And yes you were probably getting plantar fascitis or tendonitis which can be shockingly easy to trigger.

Right now I'm glaring at my new Clark's which seemed good but aren't quite what I had hoped for (My feet are the only narrow part of me these days so it's HARD to find dress shoes even if they're flat oxford styles

[jedibuttercup]

I actually have an easier time with heels, for whatever reason ... I have a pair of Clark's with big square 2-1/2" heels that are amazing. But I also have medium size feet. :)

A friend of mine developed plantar fasciitis last year, and kept going without doing anything about it until it was bad enough the doctors told her it would take months to recover ... I really, really did not want that to happen to me.

[cornerofmadness]

Unfortunately with the amount of arthritis I have heels are mostly out unless they are those big square ones you're talking about which I can tolerate.

One thing to help prevent facitis, calf stretches. One of the things that contributes to it is tight calf muscles