Monday, July 8, 2013

Fitbit One

I recently had a birthday, and my dear hubby got me a Fitbit One. I've had my mind set on getting a fitness tracker for awhile, but I couldn't bring myself to spend the money, and I thought I'd wait until after the baby was born to try to really watch my weight. But we have been talking about fitness and lifestyle a lot, so he took the opportunity to get me a tracker and I think it's going to be fun. :)
The fitbit one counts steps taken, flights of stairs climbed, estimates calories burned, and monitors sleep. I haven't gotten to look into the sleep monitoring function too much yet, but it's one of the things I'm looking forward to. Last night was my first night using it, and I slept TERRIBLY. So I haven't reviewed the data yet, but I expect that last night was an outlier anyhow. The default goal for steps taken is 10,000 a day, which I think is a decent challenge. Yesterday I got about 8,000 steps, so I'm hoping for 10K today. It is neat to be able to push myself like that, and it gives me a whole new respect for my sister, who aims for 14K a day and often succeeds!
I don't think the calorie estimates are correct, either for what it says I burned, or for what it sets as a goal. One thing that was neat though was that in the setup of the device, I was able to tell it that I'm in my third trimester. So maybe it adjusted the calories automatically as a result of that? I will look into that further after the baby arrives and I am settled into a good nursing routine. For now I don't want to overwhelm myself. The fitbit also syncs with MyFitnessPal, and also has a mobile app. I have looked at the app a little, but haven't linked it to MFP yet. Again, I want to keep it simple for now. At this point I am just striving to take 10K steps a day, and I want to see how much I'm sleeping. Everything else can wait. :)

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