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Okay, so I have a fitbit, the one you wear on your wrist so it can keep track of your heart rate, and it IS successfully encouraging me to move more, which IS helping my health. My blood pressure and heart rate are way, way down, for instance. But there are some things I don't like.
First, and I expected this one -- it irritates my skin. I swap it from wrist to wrist several times a day, as well as putting it on two different spots up and down my wrist, so, by the end of the day, I just have four light welts that I can live with, rather than one REALLY painful one. And I knew that was going to happen, so that's fine.
Second, and even more annoying, it only syncs with my phone once per reboot, so I have to reboot my phone several times a day if I want the information to get up to the website. I have been looking around online for how to fix the problem, and the best I can find is, "reboot your phone," which doesn't help, since that's the problem I want to solve, not the solution. Oh, well. My firmware and phone app are both up to date, but perhaps there will be another update soon that will fix it.
The third thing, and this is one I want to let all of you know in case you are using a wrist-mounted pedometer...
Grocery shopping: you figure that you should be able to get a bunch of steps by walking around the store while shopping, right? And you should. But -- if you're pushing the carriage, your hands are on the handlebar, and therefore they're not going up and down. As far as your wrist-mounted pedometer knows, you're just gliding along, not walking. So you don't get any credit for it. Haven't figured out a solution to that -- you can push the cart one-handed and your pedometer-wrist swing free, but that's annoying.
And here's the fourth one...
So, my fitbit tracks my sleep, too. Lis does the same thing with an app on her phone. And I discovered that the best I've done in the past two weeks was last night, when, even though I got out of bed eight and a half hours after I went to bed, I'd only gotten seven and a half hours of sleep, because I'd woken up twice and been restless twenty times. And that usually, I am closer to six hours of useful sleep.
So I now know that I suck at sleeping.
Honestly, of all the things I do in my life, "sleeping" was the thing I had totally nailed.
First, and I expected this one -- it irritates my skin. I swap it from wrist to wrist several times a day, as well as putting it on two different spots up and down my wrist, so, by the end of the day, I just have four light welts that I can live with, rather than one REALLY painful one. And I knew that was going to happen, so that's fine.
Second, and even more annoying, it only syncs with my phone once per reboot, so I have to reboot my phone several times a day if I want the information to get up to the website. I have been looking around online for how to fix the problem, and the best I can find is, "reboot your phone," which doesn't help, since that's the problem I want to solve, not the solution. Oh, well. My firmware and phone app are both up to date, but perhaps there will be another update soon that will fix it.
The third thing, and this is one I want to let all of you know in case you are using a wrist-mounted pedometer...
Grocery shopping: you figure that you should be able to get a bunch of steps by walking around the store while shopping, right? And you should. But -- if you're pushing the carriage, your hands are on the handlebar, and therefore they're not going up and down. As far as your wrist-mounted pedometer knows, you're just gliding along, not walking. So you don't get any credit for it. Haven't figured out a solution to that -- you can push the cart one-handed and your pedometer-wrist swing free, but that's annoying.
And here's the fourth one...
So, my fitbit tracks my sleep, too. Lis does the same thing with an app on her phone. And I discovered that the best I've done in the past two weeks was last night, when, even though I got out of bed eight and a half hours after I went to bed, I'd only gotten seven and a half hours of sleep, because I'd woken up twice and been restless twenty times. And that usually, I am closer to six hours of useful sleep.
So I now know that I suck at sleeping.
Honestly, of all the things I do in my life, "sleeping" was the thing I had totally nailed.