Nancy Weinberg Simon, Beauty Editor

I'm the first to admit that I'm no techie—I use a filofax, not a blackberry and I have an ipod but don't even know how to add any songs. It took me years to get a cell phone (only for emergencies) and my best friends don't even know my number! So, I'm sure you can imagine that when I was asked to wear this little gadget, I wasn't too excited. To be honest, I didn't think it would affect my fitness level at all. Well, after wearing it for one day I was shocked I'd logged a disappointing 1.83 miles, and this was a very typical day for me. I commute to work in the city daily and raise two young children on the outskirts of town so I'm used to driving everywhere. My exercise was crammed into the gym on the weekends. Clearly something had to change. I needed to find little ways to get my fitness number up, away from the embarrassing less than 2 miles per day. And then it hit me. I needed to ditch the car! I found that if I walk to and from the train station from my home and then to and from the office from Penn Station in the city I easily clock in at just under five miles, effortlessly. And the beauty of it is that it takes the same amount of time as driving and parking and taking subways once I'm in NY—and it even saves me $140 a month. Definitely a win-win situation.