Fitbit
Ah, those winter months. Looking back, you spent 90% of your time inside in a seated position. You also shoveled various sweetened food items into your talkie-hole during the months of November (Thanksgiving), December (holidays all month, basically), January (still eating leftover December treats) and February (Valentine’s Day).
Maybe you took March off—congrats!
It’s now April, which means it’s time to go outside. Sure, you can’t see your shoelaces yet but that’ll be a good goal to work towards.
Enter the $99 Fitbit pedometer. It’s no ordinary pedometer, though. You attach Fitbit’s charging station to your computer via USB cable and every time you walk past your computer, Fitbit will upload the number of steps you’ve taken to your own personal profile on Fitbit’s site.
From that, it’ll calculate the number of miles you’ve traveled in a particular day and how many calories you’ve burned based on how aggressively you’ve been moving. That data can be measured against what you’ve been eating too, as you’re able to manually enter your meals on the site along with your weight. You can even wear Fitbit while you sleep and it’ll analyze your sleep quality by measuring how often you toss and turn during the night.
And just in case you need a little extra motivation, you can battle your Fitbit-owning friends for the top spot in nightly ratings measuring which one of you has done the most moving and shaking in a particular day.
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