We had a great time at Longwood Gardens. We spent an entire day there on Saturday. The weekend was too short and I haven’t even downloaded the photos off my camera yet! I owe you those as it was a fabulous place for sure.
But a new toy for me. I received a fun gift for my birthday. I didn’t really ask for any gifts this year and only specified no jewelry LOL. So everything was a surprise. My sis and family got me a Fitbit Charge 2
The screen stays dark until you tilt your arm towards yourself (like looking at a watch). And yay for freckles! I can coat myself with sunscreen and not get burned, but the freckles still come during biking season.
I used to wear an activity monitor years ago, but it was a little clunky and it had a monthly subscription to the software. Not much money, but still.
I’m still getting used to all this does and getting it set right for me. It connects to an app on the phone, which is pretty cool. You can see your daily stats that update in real time. Today so far as of 3pm.
I’ll hit 10K today for sure. I do get in a lot of steps on a daily basis, so that is good. The second full day I wore it was on Saturday and we sure put in the steps at Longwood Gardens!
You can scroll through the days for activity, but the weekly exercise and sleep only shows the current day. Speaking of sleep, I knew that it would show my poor sleep and I don’t really want to look at it.
It seems to show that I took a nap on Tuesday, but I think that was just me on the couch very still. I was so tired that day and when you see 4 hours and 41 minutes of restless sleep, that is probably why.
I can also record my food and water intake and it has all kinds of goals and challenges you can set up. I could use a little push to be on track and get off that extra weight. I do notice it when biking compared to last summer.
Still trying to figure out how to log the bike miles. Even though it is connected to my phone and Bluetooth, it doesn’t accurately record the mileage I ride. At all. I rode 14 miles and it showed as 2.5. However, it recorded an hour of activity, so I need to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing for that.
Anyone else have a fitbit?
Nice! I don’t have a fitbit. I have a Garmin. I like it a lot. It’s cool to see the stats whenever I want. It connects to the app on my phone, too, and I can update or change things. Like when I do the elliptical it can’t track my mileage but I can go into the app and update it manually to record my miles. Maybe fitbit has that option?
Lori –
I have a charge 2 FitBit and love it. Our library in town lets you borrow one for 2 weeks at a time and I did that to find out if I would like it. Besides being able to track deep sleep, I really like that you can set it for biking, spinning, workouts and running. Its fun to go back to see the differences in winter, spring, summer exercise patterns too. Hope you like yours as much as I like mine.
Chris
PS – please keep posting your blooms. Love those photos. You are an awesome gardener!
No fitbit for me. I used to wear a pedometer when I was working. But it does look fun to see all those stats!
I have a Fitbit Charge 2. I really like it.
I have a Fitbit since 2014 and am now on my third. I lost my Fitbit couple of weeks ago and immediately bought a new one the same day (next day the shop where I tried on clothes called me they found it 🙂 )
I now have the Fitbit Alta and really like it (but I like every Fitbit). I have 2 bands for it, one matches my watch and I wear that on weekdays.
We should become friends at Fitbit (do you still have my email? you can find me through that).