Wednesday Fitbit Ad in These titles mean nothing.

Prefaced with disclaimer:
Two in fact:

1. I am not being very active, not walking much, not going to gym, not doing much. But I have hopes of doing more. OK?

2. I had credit at LL Bean who sells the basic Fitbit and I couldn’t find anything else I wanted. And that I figured would fit.

It is basically a pedometer. But it is a super pedometer. Advantages it has over pedometers I’ve had are:

1. It’s in a bracelet so it’s slightly stylish. Looks a little like a work release anklet but it is on your wrist.

2. It should be a lot harder to lose. Pedometers are easy to lose.

3. You wear it all the time. I take it off in the bathtub but it is supposed to shower and rain proof.

4. It resets itself at midnight. I was always forgetting to reset my pedometers and some of them were very sensitive and would reset themselves during the day. That was like losing a entry here.

5. It gives you a cool graph on your computer or smart phone. It shows activity over time and rates how much exertion - indicated by color changes on graph. Cool. It is a bar graph in fifteen minute increments and it’s fun to remember what you were doing at the time of spikes.

6. The computer site gives you lots of other stuff that I have not explored. It allows you to share and communicate with friends who are also of the Fitbit persuasion. I have not done that yet.

Further thoughts -

1. More expensive models have watches and heart monitors and GPS maybe. There are times I would like a watch - I don’t have one now. The last cheap watch I had ate through my skin. The Fitbit bracelet is plastic and is light and comfortable. It is gray-blue - they come in various colors. It’s unobtrusive yet kind of nice.

2. I thought it would show with lights when I got to 20%, 40%, etc of my goal but it doesn’t seem to.

3. Oh it will review your sleep for you if you want it to. I have not done that.

It seems a simple beast that will do your will.

I burned the box so I can’t send it back.

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Temp is positive 5. Humidity is 75%. Wind is 6 mph from the NW.

We did get a little snow/rain yesterday but it didn’t amount to much.

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