Fitbit flex

I am loving my Fitbit flex. It is a gadget that you wear on your wrist and synch with your phone/tablet/computer and it records your steps during the day. You can also log exercises that aren't running and walking and you can log food, water intake and your sleep. It is brilliant and I am hoping it will help me towards my goal of losing another 4 stones. You can have challenges against your friends for the week, weekend or a day. It's not always about winning as everyone is at different levels but you get quite competitive with the people close to you - well I certainly do!

To find out me you can look here - Fitbit Flex UK

The positives are:
1. The challenges - it motivates you to do more or to go further.
2. The daily goal - again this motivates you to do a bit extra.
3. Monitoring calories - so you can make sure you are on track for weight loss.
4. Active minutes - it shows you how long you have actually been moving about for.
5. It makes you aware of what you are eating and your activity levels.
6. You can link it to other apps. In my case, I have linked it to Mapmyfitness (Maymywalk), Technogym's Mywellness and you can earn points on Bounts which mean you can earn money off vouchers (my referral code is o174 if you decide to join - Thank you).
7. Monitoring fluid intake. It has made me realise how little water I drink on work days and to stay properly hydrated.
8. It monitors you sleep, so you can see whether you are getting enough sleep or how restless you have been and how many times you have woken up - you can see what is normal for you and when it is different.

The negatives are:
1. The American food database. That said, you can add things manually and after a while you don't need to add as much because you have customised it to your diet.
2. You can't add classes like body pump - probably because they are licensed classes, so you have to pick the nearest thing to it, but that's a minor flaw, but one I may email them about as being able to add these would make the calorie counts much more accurate.

So as you can see, so far the positives outweight the negatives. There is also the Charge version which has a watch feature and then the Charge HR which has a heart rate monitor.

So far I have won the Workweek Hustle challenge but I am second on the weekend hustle, but that's cool. You can't win them all but it does help up those activity levels :-)