It’s January (albeit the end of January!) and a time when many people are committed to making a few changes in their lives and take the leap to a healthy lifestyle.
Though we are active on the farm and we eat healthy, there’s always room for improvement. Since my work involves me working from my home office for a good part of the day, driving to meetings and sitting in meetings, I’ve started doing my workouts in the morning before everyone wakes up and setting my alarm on the hour when I am working from home to remind me to get up and walk around, take the dogs for a quick walk, or just do something that requires a few extra steps and activity.
I don’t usually talk about weight loss or what I’m doing because a) I don’t want to make a big deal out of it, and b) I am worried I may sabotage what I’m doing if I publicly announce it. Perhaps those worries are silly, but it is what it is. I guess I should be happy that I lost 7 lbs in the past month and a bit. I know it doesn’t seem like much, but it’s a start. With my newly diagnosed medical condition, I seemed to have reached a plateau a while ago. I’m actually not as concerned about the pounds, but more of the “feel”. I feel more energetic. I had been feeling really exhausted a few weeks ago. Ever since I started workouts in the wee hours of the morning (along with my daily 1 hour walks) and incorporated the hourly alarm to remind me to get up and away from my work desk for a few minutes, I’ve noticed a difference in energy.
Take the leap to a healthy lifestyle
Just recently, I heard about Ben Pobjoy‘s inspiring story. He lost almost 100 lbs by integrating movement into his life.
Last year, Ben decided it was time to make a change and focus on his health. With the help of technology and his own two feet, he took the leap and his efforts paid off – he walked more than 5,800 kilometres, lost a whopping 100 pounds and gave out 1,000 sandwiches along the way while gaining a healthier life!
TELUS was inspired by Ben’s weight loss story and want to share it with Canadians to inspire them too. Watch it for yourself and help us share his story and the idea of taking the leap this year through Facebook.
In 2011, TELUS became the premier founding partner of the 60 Minute Kids’ Club, an in-school, community-supported physical activity program. Through TELUS’ support, the free program provides children in kindergarten to grade eight with concrete tools, support and accountability to be physically active for 60 minutes every day, for life. Participants learn about nutrition, hydration and other healthy lifestyle choices, while tracking their progress online
For every share of Ben’s video on Facebook, TELUS will donate $5 to 60 Minute Kids’ Club, a free in-school program providing children in kindergarten through grade 8 with concrete tools to be physically active for 60 minutes every day, for life.
About Health and Fitness at TELUS
At TELUS, they care about the health of Canadians and believe in the power of technology to help them take the leap and become healthier and happier.
Fitness gear and wearables have the ability to motivate Canadians and help them stay on track with their health goals:
The majority (57 per cent) of consumers said the ability to self-monitor was a major factor in their purchase of a fitness wearable (Nielsen)
Fifty-two per cent of wearable owners primarily use their devices to stay motivated to exercise and stay healthy (MaRS)
Nearly three-quarters of current exercise app users are more active than those who stopped or never used their apps (Journal of Medical Research)
At a time when most of us are thinking about fresh starts, healthier living and general self-improvement, TELUS has your back. Not only does TELUS offer one of the most comprehensive selections of fitness and health-oriented gear, they also have trained experts to help you understand how to get the most out of your fitness and health trackers.
TELUS offers some of the most sought-after fitness and health gear on the market and has an entire team dedicated to keeping a pulse on the latest and greatest wearable accessories out there.
Whether you’re looking for a simple all-in-one solution for tracking daily activity like the Fitbit Charge HR, trying to get a better sleep with a product like the Withings Aura Smart Sleep System, or looking to pump up your workout with the right music with the Jaybird X-2 Sport Wireless BUDS, TELUS has curated the most sought-after accessories to suit your needs.
How TELUS helps me take the leap to a healthier life
I was using my Fitbit Charge HR and absolutely loved it. I liked that my Fitbit tracked all my steps, calories burned, floors climbed, kilometers walked, active minutes, etc.
I’m sad to say that Little One lost misplaced my Fitbit and I haven’t been able to use it in the past few months. She wanted to wear it to see how many steps she made a day and forgot where she put it. Now if we don’t find it, I’m going to just have to buy another one.
I have to say that my Fitbit has been instrumental in keeping me on track and motivated. I loved checking out how many steps I did a day and made it a point to try to get in at least 10,000 a day.
Other tech I am using to help with health is the Fitbit Aria WiFi Smart Scale. The Aria tracks not only weight, but body fat percentage, BMI and when uploaded to smartphone, the info paints a picture of long-term progress.
To view TELUS’ lineup of health and fitness tech gear, visit www.telus.com/betteryou.
How can TELUS help you take the leap?
Resolutions can be hard to stick to. According to the Journal of Clinical Psychology, only 64 per cent of people continue their New Year’s workouts into February. This year, TELUS wants to help Canadians “take the leap” to a happy and healthier version of themselves – and help them stay motivated all year long.
TELUS Learning Centre Experts are trained to set customers up with the right fitness tech gear so that it’s easy to get started on their health goals for the year. They can help set up your new device, show you how it works, how to make use of the data they collect and how to get the most out of your investment.
To book a session with a Learning Centre Expert, visit www.telus.com/betteryou.
Did you know?
As a leader in healthcare technology, TELUS goes beyond consumer wearable technology and is empowering Canadians to better manage their health by providing them with one of the most important pieces of the healthcare puzzle: access to their health information. Visit TELUS Health to learn more.
At TELUS, they practice what they preach and promote health from within with employee initiatives including team discounts on Fitbits and smartwatches, employee fitness challenges, and online personal training, fitness and yoga classes. How awesome is that? Yet another reason to love TELUS.
Oh, okay! I have one more reason to love TELUS. TELUS wants me to help Life on Manitoulin readers also take the leap to a healthy life and #MoveToHealthy! Know how? By giving one lucky Life on Manitoulin reader a Fitbit Charge HR of their own!
Giveaway
Would you like to win a Fitbit Charge HR? Enter by using the Rafflecopter form below. Giveaway open to residents of Canada, excluding Quebec.
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Disclosure – I am a #TeamTELUS Advocate. Though I am affiliated with TELUS, all thoughts and opinions expressed on this blog are honest and my own.
What a great post! This is really helpful in building up my interest in pursuing a clean diet. I’ve read inspiring content from consumerhealthdigest. From health facts to healthy living tips for consumers, name it and they have it. Adding this to what I read is a great boost to my interest. The graphic content also caught my interest. Great job!
Awesome, thank you so much for drawing my name Christine and Telus for the prize.
The Apple Watch would let me stay connected, while tracking my steps and consolidating the info into Health Kit
This fitbit would help me keep motivated and give me that extra push to keep on moving.
I think winning the fitbit would help keep me motivated. Will give me that extra push to keep on moving
The Aria Fitbit wifi scale would help me to maintain my ideal weight
I would love the fitbit aria too, I want to collect all the data
TELUS would help me take the leap to a healthier lifestyle with their fitness wristbands so I can track my fitness goals, check heart rate, monitors calories burned and other great features like tracking steps taken distance traveled etc. I love how it also syncs wirelessly to computer and smartphone.
I walk frequently and walk the stairs at work. Id love to know how much further I can go- motivation to see my results
I checked out the Smart Accessories on the Telus site. A Fitbit would help me because tracking my activity and progress give me inspiration and pride in my efforts. A fitbit would help me develop new healthy habits that become incorporated into my daily routines.
I love the Bluetooth feature that has call display!
I would love to be able to keep track and just see how much I can incorporate into my life, and would be a great motivator
The fitbit scale would help me.
fitbit would let me track my progress
they would help me keep track of my progress which would give me encouragement
These are great motivators
I think that the FWD Powershot would help with my hockey shot, which in turn would get me more active!
Telus and the fitbit would help me keep track of my activity and hopefully make me stick to it!
Oooh! A working scale would be nice! The FitBit Scale would be great because it tracking body fat percentage, bmi, and AND weight. Weigh on it’s on is totally not a helpful way to track progress.,
The fitbit could help make me exercise more
I think using a fitbit would make me more accountable!
Tells could really help me keep track of my progress and keep me motivated to keep pushing forward with my goals
I think incorporating a Fitbit into my fitness routine will really help keep me accountable!
A Fitbit would help motivate me
I really think that I would benefit the most from one of the Fitbit products. I really like the Fitbit Charge because it tracks everything. By having a Fitbit type product I feel that I would always try to make or exceed my goal.
Wow thank you for this awesome giveaway. I would love to have a fitbit from Telus from my husband. He really wants to take control of his health this year and increase his cardio and i think this would be the perfect accessory to help his tracking.
Telus could help me be healthier because just check out the fitbit! and the tracking apps that their cells often have.
TELUS would help me take the leap to a healthier lifestyle by making it easy to check stats like steps, distance and sleep quality on a Fitbit Charge..
The Charge would force me up and moving!
A Fitbit would help motivate me to move more!
the fitbit charge hr is awesome, love how it can track your sleep and keeps you motivated by getting those steps in.
The fitbit would help me track how active I am, which I suspect I am not due to my office job. It’ll encourage me to get up and move more throughout the day!
It will definitely help me stay on track with my goals to achieving healthier living.
The FitBit Aria WiFi Smart Scale along with the fit bit would be instrumental in tracking my goals.
I love that variety of options and price points for trackers. I think trackers are a must so you have accurate information, and information is power. Knowing how active you actually are, or what you are actually eating is the only way to make a plan and stick to it. SMART goals – (Specific Measurable, Achievable, Relevant & Realistic, and Time bound or Timely – Specific time in which to achieve goals).
Having a fitbit would keep me accountable!
I am an A personality so having Fitbit would keep me motivated as I would be constantly trying to keep up and beat the goals that I set.
I would be able to set a goal that I am accountable and can be tracked!
the FitBit would help me stay motivated watching my calories
the
iSmartAlarm – Door/Window Sensor 2 pack would benefit me, I love that it is wireless.
Being accountable for what I eat is important
I would love a fitbit so I can better track my progress nd stay on a healthy path
I think a Fitbit Charge would help keep me motivated by keeping me accountable. It would help get me away from my desk and more active.
A FitBit would help me out a lot, especially tracking my motion and steps.
The Fitbit would provide incentive since it would prove to me exactly how many steps I took and if I met my daily goal
Wow! TELUS has a lot of products to choose from! I think the Fitbit Charge HR is more my style and would help me take the leap to a healthier lifestyle! I know several people that own a Fitbit and it has been a great motivator for them!
the fitbit could help motivate me by tracking my progress
My goal this year is to drink and walk more and this would definitely help!
Thanks to Telus for giving and helping to make us healthy.
Besos, Sarah
Journeys of The Zoo
I thInk the smart scale would be a great addition to any activity tracker or smart watch that tracks your daily activity.
I thInk the smart scale would be a great addition to any activity tracker or smart watch that tracks your daily activity.
the fitbit would help me to track my motion
I love their smart accessories line! The fitbit is especially neat. I love that you can monitor so many things with it.!
Telus could help me track my daily progress
I would love to win the fit bit charge and love that it tracks all-day steps taken, distance traveled, calories burned, stairs climbed, and heart rate
The FitBit Aria WiFi Smart Scale would help me keep track of my fitness goals!
Having a Fitbit would let me have some goals to get more active and try and meet a step goal
The FitBit and FitBit Aria WiFi Smart Scale available at Telus would help me monitor my fitness activities, BMI, and will motivate me to work out more.
Having a FitBit would totally motivate me to stay on my feet and keep walking. I tend to sit on my butt to much and that needs to change. My girlfriend has one and she swears by it !
Tracking my steps with a fitness tracker would motivate me to hit my daily activity goals.
love the FitBit Aria WiFi Smart Scale. would help me keep track of how well I am doing
Telus would really help me get active . Beat my goal of steps and activity daily aswel as get a great night sleep with the sleep tracking
This would be fantastic,it would give me the motivation to track my steps and continue working out,and getting in better shape
The fitbit would motivate me to keep walking to get to my goal. I would find extra motivation to go for another walk in order to make that goal!
The Fitbit Charge HR Small will help me keep track of my progress and keep me motivated.
the smart scale is a good motivator to keep you maintain your goal. you can check your progress via graph. I like graphs 🙂
the tracking online with the Fitbit would be a great help and incentive
The FitBit Aria WiFi Smart would be perfect for me as I continue to lose weight more then 100 pounds gone already
I have to do walking for my lung therapy, being able to track my steps and activity would help so much!
The smart scale would be something i could use
Oh, they have so many great fitness gadgets! They would help me be more active by keeping track of my steps etc – I am very goal-oriented, but find it hard to keep track of the details on my own, so having something to track my progress will keep me on top of my goals and help me attain them.
Telus would help me to get on track with my daily exercise and diet. I would love to own a fitbit.
It would encourage me to take more steps during the day and get more active all together. I could use this in so many ways to improve my health.
I think the Jawbone would help me be healthier overall with it’s Insight Engine that analyzes your sleep, activity and food.
We could use the FitBit Aria WiFi Smart Scale to assist
The tracking is amazing to see what type of progress you’re making. This definitely helps with motivation.
I love my Fitbit flex, but would love to upgrade!
With the features on Apple watches it would be easy to track and gauge your fitness progress!
The Withings Pulse Ox Activity Tracker would help me with my heart health by keeping track of my pulse.
The smart scale would let me know if all my hard work is paying off.
I’d love to win my husband a fitbit. I’ve had one for awhile but it would be so motivating for both of us if he had one too. We are very competitive with each other:)
I think the Apple watch, looks an amazing tool.
I had NO idea Telus had these accessories & it’s such an innovative idea! The ZEPP Tennis is the coolest thing to add to your existing racket. I would love this to track our fitness levels & to improve our performance levels while we’re playing tennis for our healthier lifestyle!
The Fitbit is great motivation to get active
The iSmartAlarm – Motion Sensor would help me feel more secure
I really need some kind of motivation to get moving and become more active. I think the FitBit smart accessory from Telus is exactly what I need to get me started and keep me motivated into a healthier lifestyle.
FitBit and Telus offer great products and services. I love to use a FitBit to motivate me to lose weight.
The FitBit Surge would be great to help push me in my running training to go faster and farther with split times, route histories, and workout summaries.
the fitbit aria wifi smart scale would help me make sure im not losing any weight while getting strong and working out. i am known to dip into underweight which has a serious impact on my lung disease.
The Fitbit is great motivation to get active, I like tracking online.
The FitBit Aria WiFi Smart Scale would be a reminder of what my goal is and help me stick with it
Telus would give me the tools I need to track my diet and fitness. Love that they have the Apple watches, I have been debating on getting one.
Telus can help me get fit by offering up to the second updates on my workout status with their smart accessories!
FitBit Aria WiFi Smart Scale looks neat ! I really love how technology is being used in such a great way , to help people not just lose weight , but be fit , the important part , I’d love it !
TELUS would help me take a leap to a healthier lifestyle by providing me with products to help me track my fitness. I need some kind of external motivation to help me keep on track. If I could keep an eye on my progress and weight loss and track my food intake, I think I could be a much healthier person.
Telus would help me by pushing me to get more active if my movements are too low.
Thank you to Telus for making this part of their initiatives! It shows that as a company Telus really cares for it’s clients. I’m a telus client and I love it! I think the fitbit is a great device to inspire me to work towards my health goals. Just reading about it makes me feel inspired!
Telus offers a pretty great range of accessories to keep me on track to a healthier lifestyle- including quite a few items I didn’t even know existed! The FitBit Aria WiFi Smart Scale looks awesome- and will help me keep a wide range of my own personal information at my finger tips!
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One of the FitBits would help me keep track of my movement and encourage me to do more.
Fitbit & Telus would keep me accountable for my total body, mind & soul work out! That’s what walking is to me a total overall workout! how can you go wrong with this???
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Great post! I didn’t know Telus had such a strong involvement in the community and such a passion for wanting to help people live healthier lives! I feel proud that they’re my service provider lol
The FitBit Aria would give me motivation to lose weight.
The FitBit Aria WiFi Smart Scale would help me keep track of progress!
This would help me with my goal weight keeping me active and tracking my steps
The The Fitbix Aria would keep the adults in the family motivated and we can all share our success and fails as we do aim to be healthy and fit together in 2016
The FitBit Aria WiFi Smart Scale would help me keep track of my results!
This would help with a healthier lifestyle by wearing the fitbit and seeing how far I have come along sith steps. Trying to do better each day.
I would love this for Hubby, all done chemo & trying to get back to normal. TELUS would help him take the leap to a healthier lifestyle by helping him get back on track without over doing it!!
I dont like pain too much so I think this technology would help me know just how much exertion is needed to become fit. Slow and steady pace, small increments.
I know this would help me want to try and do better then my friends, cause we’re like that, so it would motive me more
I think any of the Fibits would be perfect for me. I do walk but really need to know the steps to hold myself accountable.
Can’t find it at the moment but I heard Telus will help with the set up too.
I love the FitBit Aria Wifi Smartscale. Something the entire family could use and help on to stay on track.
Telus would help me take the leap to a healthier lifestyle as the Fitbit would give me concrete proof of how few steps I am getting done this winter. I believe it would give me incentive to get those 10,000 steps in daily.
I am trying to loose 30lbs lost 70 so far. This would help me by being able to track my steps to see where I need to improve.
Having an office job means I’m sitting around A LOT more than I want to. Having a Fitbit HR on my wrist with a step goal would definitely remind me to get up and walk around a lot more!
I can’t blame my little one – I lost my pedometer myself. Perhaps I would have better luck keeping track of a Fitbit Charge strapped to my wrist!
I think the small Fitbit Charge HR would really help! My husband has lost over 130lbs and he’s kept it off with his Fitbit. I’m down almost 50lbs myself but I’ve reach a plateau.
The Fitbix Aria would help us keep track of our BMI and see how far we are along with our goals <- which will lead to more exercises and outdoor activities .
I have some chronic health issue but know I need to get moving more to help them. I start but then before I know it I have stopped. I need some motivation and hopefully being able to track what I am doing would help. I would love to win a Fitbit. The FitBit Aria WiFi Smart Scale also looks great!
I’m eyeing the Moto 360 2nd Gen Black Leather! It looks like a watch and has the capabilities of a smart watch. I think owning a smart watch will allow me to monitor my daily activity and actually be cognizant of the steps I take and the food I intake.
I tend to live a very healthy lifestyle in general, however I think the addition of an Apple Watch from Telus would amp that up. I’d have fun adding apps & tracking to my daily workouts!
My fitbit helps to keep me motivated to move more. I work at a desk most days, and don;t get the proper exercise. When I need to go to the washroom, i go to the one upstairs, and not the one 10 feet away from my home office. Fitbit keeps me moving.
So awesome, Craig!! My Fitbit was recently lost (my Little One wanted to wear it for an afternoon because she was curious…and the she lost it!! GRRR). I used to set the alarm on my Fitbit so I got up and walked around or did exercises at my desk. Desk work is brutal for not being able to get in more activity, so I’ve found setting an alarm helpful. Fitbit is good for reminding us to get up and get some steps in 🙂
I got back to working out this past year and I feel great and very strong. I find weight training is good for my arthritis.
I love that the FitBit Aria Wifi Smartscale can help the whole family keep track of their weight loss and BMI results through their phones! ! Amazing!
Alayne! I love our FitBit Aria! I stepped on it today and am down a few pounds!! Haha! I’ve never loved a scale so much before!! 😉
being active, and eating properly is the most important thing, everything else will fall into place