In our case (because we join through our conference’s insurance plan), we can earn up to $300 but without paying for the service. The reward works out to be the same, but if you join as an individual, you’d have to earn nearly $175 (the first year, about $155/year afterward) in rewards to break even.

BTW, I think I’m going to do periodic updates on how I’m doing on the program, possibly whenever I reach a new level (I expect to reach level 2 very soon).

Since joining late September last year I have been periodically checking the status of the Individual Plans as my husband has been wanting to participate. I noticed last month they were available- just click on “HealthMiles for Individuals” and “join now” to order the plan!

HealthMiles are earned by the number of steps, generally. If I remember correctly, you get 20 HealthMiles for taking up to 7,000 in a day, 60 HealthMiles for more than 7,000, 80 HealthMiles for more than 12,000 steps, and 100 HealthMiles for more than 20,000 steps in a day.

Unless you take 20,000+ steps every single day for a year, you’ll need to rack up HealthMiles in other ways, too, in order to reach Level 5 (36,000 HealthMiles).

There are other ways to earn HealthMiles, like reporting weight, body fat percentage, and blood pressure, monthly (if ideal or improving), and for completing other fitness reports, periodically. You can earn HealthMiles for writing exercise journal entries or starting (and/or winning) a “personal challenge” of other HealthMiles members.

I should also add that the HealthMiles website is easy to use and uploading steps from the pedometer to the computer couldn’t be easier, which makes it more likely for users to keep it up!