2018 SBTB Hanukkah-palooza, Night Six!

A menorah against a blue and white background with the ladies quadrant in a frame next to the menorahHappy Sixth Night of Hanukkah!

Today’s giveaway will help you and your future self with the Gift of Health – now and in the new year! Maybe you’ve had a few too many sufganiyot, or you cleaned your relatives out of their entire chocolate gelt stash in your last round of dreidel (nice job!), or maybe you’re cold and a little tired, and want that delicious rush of endorphins. I love those. Endorphins are the greatest.

Whatever the reason, this prize will help you keep moving forward into the new year.

Let’s get to it!

Today’s prize is a Withings Steel HR watch!

A white watch face with silver accents and a raspberry colored band

The Steel HR Activity Watch comes in a bunch of color band combinations, retails for $179.95 and comes with a variety of features. The customization options are terrific, too. You can set it to track any number of activities with the press of the side button, and can customize which activities are your most frequent (for me, that’s running, walking, weight lifting, snowboarding, and sometimes Zumba).

It also tracks your heart rate and let me tell you, that’s some heckin’ strong motivation when I’m getting tired from a run: I bet I can keep my heart rate up to moderate or intense levels for another minute. It’s funny how more data about what I’m doing makes me want to do more. Sometimes my gift of health to myself is giving myself encouragement when I most need it, and the watch helps me out with that process in really neat ways.

Here are some additional specs:

  • Smartphone compatibility with Android and iOS.
  • Receives smartphone notifications.
  • Water resistant up to 50m.
  • 25 days of battery life.
  • Heart rate and other fitness monitoring.
  • Compatible app for fitness tracking.

Oh! And Withings has a beautiful holiday box for 2018 if you’re gift shopping for folks who may want one of their watches.

And! And! We have a coupon for shopping that lasts longer than Hanukkah – woot!

Use code SBTB10 gives you 10% off all devices including the gift boxes, with the exception of the Limited Edition and Pulse HR. The coupon is valid until January 31, 2019. Woohoo!

Important Thanks: Susie Felber, who is also known in the Romance universe as “Edith Layton’s daughter,” works for Withings, and has provided the giveaway prize for us tonight. Thank you, Susie! Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for keeping your mom’s romances alive for new generations of readers!

Ready to enter? Hope so!

Just leave a comment saying how far you think you’ll walk, run, dance, slide, spin, or move in 2019!

Standard disclaimers apply: I am not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Open to international residents were permitted by applicable law. Must be over 18 and ready to look stylish as heck! If you’re like me, you don’t wear watches, and then suddenly get a fitness watch, well…you aren’t going to be able to leave without one now. Also, prep yourself for watch tan lines!

Comments will close Saturday 8 December 2018, at or near 12pm ET, and winner will be announced shortly afterward.

Good luck, Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for being part of Smart Bitches!

Winner update: Congratulations to Ashley Morris! Don’t forget to check your email inbox and spam folders.

Two more days left of our Hanukkah-palooza!

Comments are Closed

  1. Darlynne says:

    3 miles per day + 10 when we’re traveling and walking way too much = eleventy-seven because I am a math wizard.

    Does this watch count page turns per day? That number would be off the charts.

  2. TamB. says:

    My husband and I both earn frequent flyer points for achieving activity targets and challenge each other weekly (both for points and bragging rights).

    So I hope to be more active than my husband.

  3. Johanna says:

    I need to move more. Apparently, 30 minutes a day is the bare minimum if I want to be healthy so…however far I get in 30 minutes. 3km, maybe? Per day?

  4. Bu says:

    I’m trying to diversify my moving, so I’m hoping to salsa, waltz, tango, tap, warrior pose, weight lift, cartwheel, and stroll through 2019.

    Call it a morgen of two-steps…plus or minus a smoot.

  5. ms bookjunkie says:

    I need to move more. And purposefully. (And knowing what the time is. Seriously, I miss glancing at my wrist and being efficient with my time.)

    Does this watch measure how many stitches I knit per day? Because that’s some truly useful knowledge!

  6. mel burns says:

    We put a walking pool in during the summer, it’s U shaped and goes from 3ft to 4.6ft on the curve. It’s fantastic! I walk for an hour twice a day, it’s the best!

  7. Carrie says:

    I’m hoping to get back on my bike in 2019. I keep coming up with excuses and that has to stop!

  8. kitkat9000 says:

    I’m trying to get into better shape. Shin-splints make running a no-go; however, walking is not only doable but preferable.

  9. Betsydub says:

    Just yesterday, FitBit sent me a notification that I had earned their “Italy badge”, for walking the distance of the length of Italy since I started tracking (ten months ago). So now I feel the need to research what country would be 10-20% longer than Italy, and attempt to earn that “badge” (even though what I “earned” was just an email).
    But I also need to start swimming/doing water aerobics because the cumulative impact of walking (on land) is turning my joints into creaky non-starters.
    (If I win the Withings, I will gladly re-gift my FitBit to a friend who has been lusting for one since I got mine)
    Thanks, Bitches! Thanks, Susie (love your Mom’s books)!

  10. Erin says:

    Well, swimming is my preferred option, but I walk too. 6000 miles?

  11. Jan says:

    A solid 1 hour of walking up and down the hills around my home at least 4 times per week.
    Today is my birthday and am approaching 70. This will be a perfect gift to help me live long enough to see the end of a few series I follow and whittle down my tbr list.

  12. Gigi says:

    I’m going to train for my first 5K next year so I’m going to say I’ll be running a few miles a week to start and walking the rest of the time.

  13. Azure says:

    Until early in 2017, I was doing a pretty good job of maintaining the 230 pound weight loss I’d achieved ten years ago. Then I lost my job, started grad school, got a new job that doesn’t allow me to be nearly as mobile. Because I do so much traveling for this job, my eating habits have gotten bad. I’ve gained about 45 of those pounds back. Needless to say, I am NOT happy about this.

    So in the coming year, my goal is to get back to doing the things I was doing when I was at my goal weight–not just walking four miles on the treadmill and calling it a day. I want to try yoga again. I want to take more time for weight lifting at the gym (instead of just the aforementioned treadmill). I want to feel healthier, because right now, I don’t feel that at all.

  14. Lizzie R says:

    I just want to walk more. I definitely rely on my car too much ana that has got to stop.

  15. Another Kate says:

    Right now, I have an eliptical in my basement along with a yoga mat that I use several times a week. My 2019 goal is to stop accepting my excuse of “I’m too tired” since I know that when I exercise regularly I have more energy.

  16. Hollyg238 says:

    I want to start yoga and dancing/fitness classes again. I walk now but it doesn’t bring me as much joy as cardio kickboxing. Soit’s back to gym with others. Goal in 2019 – regain my joy of fitness again and look forward to exercising vice a duty I have to do. Maybe then I will lose the 20 lbs I gained in the last 18 months

  17. Natasha Rebello says:

    Early this year I was doing a decent job of being active and eating healthy. I fell off the bandwagon sometime in July when I switched jobs. It doesn’t help that I have access to free candy at work. It’s been very hard motivating myself to get back in shape. Still trying to figure out how to be more accountable to myself

  18. SandyL says:

    I hope to walk all the way to Lothlorien! We will see….

  19. Tanya says:

    I’m not sure how far I’ll get in 2019, but I definitely need to focus on exercise more. I think I have the eating right part down so now for the next part. There’s a dance studio nearby that offers belly dance classes and I’d like to add in a couple of zumba classes a week. And I’ll continue my weightlifting sessions.

  20. Tina S. says:

    Damn you to hell, genetically high cholesterol! To avoid getting on the statin train, my doc has “prescribed” that I do at least 30 minutes of cardio for at least five days a week. Happy New Year to me!

  21. Critterbee says:

    Goal – 10000 steps a day, but no way to track how much I already do – I need a fitness tracker…

  22. Sarah says:

    I’m still recovering from abdominal surgery (stupid ruptured appendix) but I’m determined to get up and moving more! I’m almost up to 2 miles now!

  23. Jenn with 2 Ns says:

    I’m ready to be done with this pregnancy and get back to running agility with my dog (and the new agility puppy who’s coming this summer). The pibble would also like her handler to be able to run again instead of just waddling and yelling directions. She hates when I try to run her while I’m pregnant.

  24. Jennifer M. says:

    After some serious feet issues last year (stress fracture + plantar fasciitis), I’m hoping to get back to 10K+ steps/day. We just bought a treadmill, which is helping me ease back into movement without having to face the cold!

  25. Patricia M. says:

    Walking is my major form of exercise and I try to walk between 4-5 miles a day (most of that on a treadmill since I really don’t like being out in the cold)

  26. Kate says:

    I want to do a 5k in 2019, so i’ll Have to run a lot to get there.

  27. Vic B says:

    I usually walk more than 3 miles a day when the streets are not icy. I havent been tracking my indoor activity but I should to report to my various doctors.

  28. peggy h says:

    After a few years of neglecting my health, 2018 was the year I have resumed regularly exercising, even if it’s just 20 to 30 minutes a day. I hope and plan to continue maintaining this in 2019!

    Thank you for the awesome giveaways!

  29. Kim W says:

    I walk about a mile a day and hope to continue that in 2019

  30. Kim says:

    I teach high school science in a very hands-on method. I get a minimum of 7500 steps per day just from that!

  31. rissatoo says:

    I don’t have a specific number in mind, just ‘more than this year’… My health hasn’t been great lately, and I just got more & more tired all the time, but after yesterday it should improve – I’m getting iron infusions set up! Yesterday’s blood test led to blood transfusions overnight at the ER, and now plans for infusions – hooray! I missed having energy!

  32. Stacey says:

    I’m hoping to do some serious moving in 2019! Goals include completing a half marathon and hiking to the top of a local peak.

  33. Harmony says:

    Now that I’m no longer running all over a university campus my steps are down, but I’m going to make an effort to pick them up again, at least to school levels, hopefully higher. Desk jobs are too sedentary.

  34. Eve says:

    I’m (very) slowly recovering from tendonitis and associated neuropathy, so I’m just hoping that sometime in 2019 I’ll be able to actually get back into regular dance, yoga, and biking sessions!

  35. Lisa J says:

    I walk A LOT every day and plan to continue. It has helped me lose over 80 pounds.

  36. KarenF says:

    Yeah, I think the term I am looking for is “more.” More walking, and especially more yoga.

  37. Erica H says:

    At least 1000 steps a day more than I did in 2018

  38. LauraL says:

    I walk about a mile a day with my dogs and hope to get in closer to 600 miles on walkies next year.

  39. SaraW says:

    I’m going to start training soon for a weeklong hike across the Colorado trail, 70 miles at like 12000feet above sea level next summer; this watch would be excellent training help!

    Plus, it’s freaking gorgeous.

  40. LK says:

    I’ve gone back to running recently. Currently at about 2 miles a few times a week. I’m working up to 3 or 4 miles and I hope to sustain it in 2019.l

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