Diet and Exercise tracker

[lisaly]

The Bed, Bath, and Beyond deal with the coupon is excellent. That's the one I have. When I was looking, there were no deals. It was actually selling for more than list on Amazon, and many places were out of it. The chest monitors are more accurate, but they say this is pretty good.

I was a member of Melaleuca too. I joined to help my close friend. I really like their cleaning products too. I kept te membership for about a year, but if I need anything, she orders it for me. She is my assistant at work, and we only use nontoxic cleaners in our classroom. I have terrible migraines and sinuses, so I need to stay away from chemicals, and she is very health conscious. It's much better for our students, too. I use the cleaning products at home, as well.

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by lisaly

The Bed, Bath, and Beyond deal with the coupon is excellent. That's the one I have. When I was looking, there were no deals. It was actually selling for more than list on Amazon, and many places were out of it. The chest monitors are more accurate, but they say this is pretty good.

I was a member of Melaleuca too. I joined to help my close friend. I really like their cleaning products too. I kept te membership for about a year, but if I need anything, she orders it for me. She is my assistant at work, and we only use nontoxic cleaners in our classroom. I have terrible migraines and sinuses, so I need to stay away from chemicals, and she is very health conscious. It's much better for our students, too. I use the cleaning products at home, as well.

I've only recently learned about them, I too joined to help a friend, but now I'm hooked! I love the fact that they are a green company and their products are non-toxic, but most of all I love the way they clean, the glass cleaner is amazing, nothing I've ever tried is close, and I love the tub cleaner too, I use all sorts of products before and this is incredible. We started them because I've been looking into natural vitamins, and there are some good studies on these being effective at the cellular level and that's important in helping to prevent free radicals from causing some problems. Anyway, we tried some of the other things and I'm really impressed.

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by lisaly

I have the Fitbit HR, and I'm very happy with it. I mostly got it to see how many miles each day that Katie and I were walking, but it's a great motivator to meet your daily or weekly goals. I had been using the health app on my iPhone, but this is much better. I always knew I was not getting anyway near enough sleep, but the sleep tracker was a real eye opener for me. I haven't started tracking calories yet. The reviews of the HR model are excellent. I like having the heart rate monitor. My husband ordered it directly from the company--no shipping or tax.

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Thank you so much for telling me about this, I'm so glad I decided to get it. I have never felt so in control of my diet as I do now. I've been eating healthy and exercising for years now, but as you age your metabolism slows down and I just felt like I couldn't do enough exercise to eat enough. The elliptical while good for my heart, but really tires me out and I can't do more than 40 minutes a day. I also do the weight training every other day, but keeping my weight stable is so challenging. With this I feel like all I have to do is take a few more steps and walking just doesn't tire me out like the elliptical does and I can do it several times a day. I'm planning on doing this along with my other exercises and trying to reach my goal of 5 miles a day, if that doesn't work, I'll add more miles.


Anyway, thank you I just feel so excited about this and I hope it really aids in my long term health results. Sometimes with diet alone, it's just what you don't do, you don't eat this or that, I mean even healthy food contains calories, but with this, it's more about what you do, and that's a great feeling.

[lisaly]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

Thank you so much for telling me about this, I'm so glad I decided to get it. I have never felt so in control of my diet as I do now. I've been eating healthy and exercising for years now, but as you age your metabolism slows down and I just felt like I couldn't do enough exercise to eat enough. The elliptical while good for my heart, but really tires me out and I can't do more than 40 minutes a day. I also do the weight training every other day, but keeping my weight stable is so challenging. With this I feel like all I have to do is take a few more steps and walking just doesn't tire me out like the elliptical does and I can do it several times a day. I'm planning on doing this along with my other exercises and trying to reach my goal of 5 miles a day, if that doesn't work, I'll add more miles.


Anyway, thank you I just feel so excited about this and I hope it really aids in my long term health results. Sometimes with diet alone, it's just what you don't do, you don't eat this or that, I mean even healthy food contains calories, but with this, it's more about what you do, and that's a great feeling.

I was so happy to read this, Nancy, and to be of help to you. You have helped me so many times through the years and so many others.

I am exploring more now about how I can use my Fitbit better. I have to up my goals a little more and to take things more seriously. I'm so focused on health for Katie and even improving my husband's health, but it has only been less than three weeks since I've been off of work for the summer, and I rarely focus on my own health. I was extremely stressed, didn't have enough hours in a day, and was in such a state of exhaustion that it's surprising I didn't collapse. I was surviving on less than two hours sleep a day most of the time, but I still managed to get Katie out walking a few miles a day. Her excitement and happiness exhilarates me. We also play fetch and games that I can't monitor.

I want to focus on healthy eating more and some weight loss. I'd like to lose a little weight, but it's not my biggest concern. I just think I'd feel better, particularly since I'm having problems with my back and ankle. Any loss of weight should help my back pain a bit and also my stomach issues (Barrett's Esophagus). With the exception of when my ankle is really bothering me, running up and down the stairs seems to be my most regular exercise other than walking.

I hope it helps you to feel better and to achieve your goals. You look beautiful to me from what I've seen in photos you've posted. The blog has some good articles. I'm just now having the time to explore things. The Foodtrainers blog looks interesting, too.

Foodtrainers

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by lisaly

I was so happy to read this, Nancy, and to be of help to you. You have helped me so many times through the years and so many others.

I am exploring more now about how I can use my Fitbit better. I have to up my goals a little more and to take things more seriously. I'm so focused on health for Katie and even improving my husband's health, but it has only been less than three weeks since I've been off of work for the summer, and I rarely focus on my own health. I was extremely stressed, didn't have enough hours in a day, and was in such a state of exhaustion that it's surprising I didn't collapse. I was surviving on less than two hours sleep a day most of the time, but I still managed to get Katie out walking a few miles a day. Her excitement and happiness exhilarates me. We also play fetch and games that I can't monitor.

I want to focus on healthy eating more and some weight loss. I'd like to lose a little weight, but it's not my biggest concern. I just think I'd feel better, particularly since I'm having problems with my back and ankle. Any loss of weight should help my back pain a bit and also my stomach issues (Barrett's Esophagus). With the exception of when my ankle is really bothering me, running up and down the stairs seems to be my most regular exercise other than walking.

I hope it helps you to feel better and to achieve your goals. You look beautiful to me from what I've seen in photos you've posted. The blog has some good articles. I'm just now having the time to explore things. The Foodtrainers blog looks interesting, too.

Foodtrainers

Oh wow, I can't believe how little sleep you were getting, there so much evidence that suggests not getting enough sleep and also stress elevates cortisol which messes with your blood sugar and insulin which can make you gain weight. It's like the body goes into survival mode and holds onto fat.

My husband decided to get one last week and he's doing great with it and we are having all these little mini competitions. One interesting thing I learned was when I was on the elliptical most of the calories when to cardio very few were fat burning, with the walking I'm using all the calories as fat burning. I feel like this gives me so much more control now, if I want to eat a treat, all I do is walk a little more. I'm definitely feeling much more energetic and yesterday, I was up to 17,000 steps a day! At first 10,000 was hard, but I wanted an ice cream bar last night, so I just walked until I could eat one without feeling guilty. I just walk in back and forth in my living room, it's too hot for me outside, but I can't wait until I can do more walking outside. The dogs are actually following me for some of the walks so maybe they'll get some exercise out of it too. We decided to get the scale that goes with this and it measures you weight as well as your fat weight, and uploads it your charts, so you can't cheat. I'm hoping to lose a little weight too and right now I feel very hopeful that this can do it for me, I'm trying to manage my diabetes without medication, so diet and exercise is very important.