Lacoste Photo Shoot Behind Fitbit Wireless Activity/Sleep Tracker, Black/Blue (Sports) I have the Fitbit mentality, and it really works for me. Not everyone works like this. But for me, if I track my performance, I'm motivated to do well. If I'm not being tracked, it's harder to get motivated.I started out as a pedometer enthusiastic. (Omron is the only way to go for a pedometer BTW.) When wearing my pedometer -- now FitBit -- my attitude towards movement was transformed. Almost done with grocery shopping and remembered something way back in produce? No problem! That's about 400 steps extra I'll get. (Grocery shopping in general is a step bonanza.) Out in the car and forget something back in the house? No problem! I'd be happy to get it for you! (275 steps.) Finish a meal at a restaurant -- want to take a walk around the block? Oh heck, now that we're going, this feels good, let's make it three. (700 steps.) Ready to turn in, but about 1000 steps shy of 10,000? A night-time turn around the neighborhood would be really pleasant. (2200 steps.) It's silly, but wearing that step tracker makes all the difference for me.I've been losing weight slowly over the past 3 years through lifestyle change -- I've lost 27 pounds and have bout 10 pounds to go -- and I know that the pedometer/FitBit has been part of it.After several years of avid step tracking, I proved to myself that not only was the pedometer a personal motivator, it wasn't just a passing fad for me. So I felt I'd earned myself a step up in the fitness gadget world (I like to guard against the proliferation of gadgets), and invested in a Fitbit. Having now used one for 8 months, I'm really glad I did.The big difference between a pedometer and a Fitbit is that I don't just go for cumulative activity (how many steps in a day), but for continual activity: how much of the day was I active? How much sedentary? The Fitbit shows me in a pretty-hard-to-argue-with pie chart. So far today, since arising at 7:08 a.m. (as shown by my FitBit) til 2:41 p.m., I have been very active 27 minutes (that would be my interval running-walking workout), fairly active 1 hour 8 minutes, lightly active 2 hours 43 minutes, and sedentary (including writing this review!) 3 hours 12 minutes. All laid out in a pie chart graph. Not too bad for today so far, but I'd better get moving now!I have the tendency to get in good workouts at the gym, but be sedentary the rest of the time. With the FitBit, I shift from being mere exercise oriented, to being more rounded in my goals for overall activity.I also really like the FitBit's sleep tracking function, which includes records of wakeups. I think sleep is a key ingredient of health, but one of the black boxes of our world. With FitBit, my sleep patterns are all effortlessly tracked, making it easy to see if I'm sleep deprived or not, keeping regular sleep hours, etc. Also, if you forget to press the button that says you're going to sleep, it is easy to figure it out the next day and edit one's sleep activity log. (If you need more details on this, ask me in the Comments section.)There is still a fair deal about the FitBit website that feels rudimentary, or like a startup company trying to figure out best practices. But I like FitBit's dedication and earnestness. This I've experienced firsthand through customer service several times. They offer some of the most personable and helpful customer service I've encountered. They seem dedicated to making it right. And you can tell they are genuine believers in their product.I lost my FitBit for a few weeks and only recently recovered it. During those non FitBit days, I really felt the loss, in both lack of motivation and lack of knowledge. Some days, I really had no idea if I'd had a slug day, or a woo-hoo day. Now I'm wearing my FitBit again, and it's much easier being woo-hoo.
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Lacoste Photo Shoot Behind I thought this would be one of those really thin, sleek card holders. It's about a 1/2 inch thick, but it's very cute and holds cards on both sides with clips. I use it a lot for business and personal cards.