I've officially hit super geek status with my diet. Not only do I blog about my WW online diet, I just purchased a Ftbit. This is a cheaper, but way cooler alternative to the BodyBugg sold through 24 Hour Fitness. I eyed the BodyBugg for several months, extremely tempted to purchase one but couldn't realistically afford the whole system. The total cost for a BodyBugg is $278 plus a monthly fee to use their system. My nifty Fitbit, as seen below, is smaller, only $99 and the online system to track your activity is free. I don't really need to know my sweat, heat, and exertion - I just want to know how many calories I'm burning in a day! Yesterday was the first day I wore my Fitbit and I burned 2,176 calories; 1376 calories eaten, took 5273 steps, and traveled 2.20 miles. Not bad for Day One!
In addition to tracking my calories burn, the Fitbit tracks sleep quality. I think the sleep quality tracking is a really cool feature and it shows on Fitbit's site, how "efficient" my sleep was, which is a percentage of how much time I spent sleeping versus how long it took to go to bed and how many times I became "active." As you can see last night I woke up 12 times! My sleep didn't feel very efficient, but I scored 91%.
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That is awesome. I kind of WANT.
I'm super excited about it! If you get one, we can be friends on the fitbit website. You can actually sign up for free to use the tools but until you get a fitbit your activity is manually tracked. REI has them in stock online and in stores. I advise calling the store to see if they have it before you make the trek.
Thanks to your tip, I setup my own FitBit this morning. I can feel the weight drop off of me as I type this. Oh wait, I dropped my iPhone.
how does it know when you woke up?
I drank 10k calories... dyin.
Denise, you have to "start" and "stop" on the fitbit when you go to sleep (little button on the device). It won't start tracking until you physically stop moving. It uses the same sensors as the Wii remotes to track movement.
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