This week has been about love…sort of. So I would be remiss if I didn’t talk about the greatest love of all: the love for my fitbit…
My daughter got me a new fitbit for Christmas. I used to have one, and then it broke. And then I got a jawbone and that company went out of business. So I went some time without tracking my steps…
But now I’m back. And obsessively going over all the numbers it spews out. Therefore, I am most grateful this week for the sleep score section on the Fitbit breakdown!
If you wear your fitbit to bed it gives you a breakdown of how well you slept. When I got the device back in December, my sleep score was in the 70’s, which is fair….
Fair?
So being the stats crazy, competitive person that I am, I set out to conquer the sleep score. I wanted to do better.
So I would look at my data, and think about what I did right on the nights I got a “good” score and what I did wrong when I had a “fair” score. I eliminated some things, added others, and finally…my Thursday to Friday sleep pattern hit 90- which is EXCELLENT.
If only I could wear a bracelet that would help me reach my goals in everything else…
Lol. Glad to hear that concentrating on why you couldn’t sleep didn’t cause it to become even worse! That is problem-solving at its very best!
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It’s amazing how it worked!
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I would buy one of those 🤣
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I am obsessed with tracking things now! Though the competitive me takes over…I though my resting heart rate if 70 was good, until my neighbor told me hers was 60….so now I’m trying to get there….😆
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Mine was 67 today, but have got it up to 180 on the 15 incline treadmill.
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Awesome! I have a slight cold so I was at 73 resting and I got as high as 144 in spinning
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That’s brilliant.
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I should get another one. I lost mine on a vacation a few years ago. I can relate to your competitive side. My brother, a niece and I could see each others STATS and it really motivated me to push myself. Which really is a good thing for me!
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I love mine!!
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You’re even competitive about your sleep patterns! I love it. 😂
In all seriousness though, it’s great you are having good nights’ rest. Cheers to good health!
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I think of it as intense goal setting!😉
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My Fitbit is awesome!!! Have been using sleep score for a couple of years now. My lowest sleep score was 48 and my highest 88. I attribute the improvement to less night sweats/hot flashes!!! (thank god the watch is water prove lol). Congratulations on your excellent score!!!
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Thanks! My culprit turned out to be caffeine. I realized that I can’t have a caffeinated beverage after 4ish…and lavender lotion of my feet totally helps!
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Well looks like I’m going to go buy some lane see lotion today.
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It seriously works…and your feet feel great!
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Thanks for the tip!!!
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I too had a fitbit that died and haven’t gotten a new one, but maybe I should think about it as my lifestyle has changed for the better alas my weight has not changed for the better. What type of fitbit do you have.
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I have the inspire hr…it’s one of the lesser models, but it works for my purposes. I’m loving it
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Thats funny! I got an Apple Watch for xmas – and really enjoy it. Though I wonder if it is making me toooo connected. I like how it tracks my workouts – and it’s so easy to use. I will have to see if it has a sleep tracker on it – pretty sure I am not using all the features.
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My daughter has an Apple Watch and there is a sleep mode…wait…she said downloaded an app to her iPhone called sleep watch….you’re lucky she’s home for the weekend…
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Haha! I’ll check into it.
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I went through three fitbits before my husband said “enough!” and bought me an iPhone. I track my steps with it, but I don’t wear it to bed because it needs charging more often than the Fitbit did.
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Ha. I will tell you…it’s really helped my sleep.
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I love my charge 3. I’ve been using it for the last couple of weeks. I love watching my heart rate. I’m amazed at how it can track it. I am definately more mindful of my thoughts and temper. When my heartrate is up I know I need to calm down!
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The heart rate monitor is awesome!
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Ikr!
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I love my fitbit and it has served me well. I’ve had three in the past five years. I wear stuff hard so of course, this one is reaching its golden years. I’ve already made the decision I am going without once it’s gone. At least for a while. So I am making it my goal to make its final time here so worth it by trying to double my daily step goal as often as possible.
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I can’t imagine my life without it at this point!
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I am currently on a five day streak of 20K steps a day, so I’m committed to sending my FitBit out in style! 🙂
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Awesome! I’m setting a 20m step goal when it gets warmer….I’m a walking wimp now…I did 26m steps on Friday, but barely made 10m on Monday….
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That is what I love about FitBit. That it creates a regimen, and expectations along with it. Its a positive thing and it’s having fun WHILE getting in your exercise.
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Give us some tips! I’m sure my sleep is “fair” at best.
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Oooh…too many tidbits to write here! I will blog about it soon
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Fitbits track your sleep? That’s kind of creepy. I don’t know how soundly I’d sleep if I knew some gadget was monitoring me. But maybe I’d forget about it as I drifted off.
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I’m obsessed with stats and numbers…so it’s a win win for me!
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You get your money’s worth from the fitbit!!!
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Love it!
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Awesome that you are sleeping better! Can I ask what you did? My son has had a chronic problem with sleeping and the fitbit shows that he is getting very little of deep sleep. He got his at Christmas.
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I’ll try to blog about it soon! The biggest thing is calming your mind before bed…
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Will look forward to the post. 🙂 And I do think that is a big part of the problem, my son’s mind is always going!
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I get that!
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Competitive sleeping?
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Duh……
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They can be addictive. If I forget to put it on when I go out I feel naked and bummed that I won’t be getting my steps recorded.
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I know! I even freak out if I forget to put it on after I shower or whatever…like those twent steps it missed are going to break me
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Okay. I have to do my family duty and say… you really should have a Garmin, they are so much better! lol! (Sorry, family ties) I had my last one for about 5 years before we decided to upgrade and my current one for only a little over a year. The biggest problem I ever had with my first one was that I had to replace the battery and I was hard on the bands. I always get several bands as I like to switch them out every once in a while, but not all versions allow you to do that (and why I won’t ever buy any device that doesn’t allow it). I’m not at all good at really using mine, at least over the winter.
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I am obsessed!
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I’m not completely familiar with what the FitBit offers, but since Garmin tends to target the more hardcore athletes, some of their devices track some of the craziest stuff. I have a more basic tracker, but there are pieces to what that tracks that I really enjoy and help to keep me honest with myself. I’d be all over their higher end devices if I were really into fitness. Or really into just the stats and the metrics of everything those things track.
I do wear mine all the time, I just don’t always pay attention to the results. That may need to change soon, though.
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I have a basic model. I keep track of steps and heart rate and sleep. I think when I get my next one I will do the most advanced model. I’m sort of into the stats
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