I have been away...dealing. Life is kinda crazy right now. I finally got the letter and as a result...I am still looking for a job. I wanted to cry, but there is no sympathy here. (at home)
Must move on.
I don't want to write about my feelings today, so I am going to give you my thoughts on my first week or so with the slimcoach.
Slimcoach Pros:
When you start off using it, in the computer set-up process it asks you what your weight loss goals are, then it asks you how quickly you want to achieve them. In doing so, it creates both a meal plan and a activity plan for you. It starts you off slowly and then builds so that you are truly building up to a higher activity level slowly. The meal plans are nice. Where the Fitbit lets you log your food. This actually gives you what you should eat. Don't like the selected meal? Hit the swap button and it populates a list of acceptable swaps. Don't know how to make the suggested meal? The recipe is just a click away. When you click the button the circle on the outside of the device changes from red to green as you reach your fitness goal for the day, click it again and it will show you where you are with the calorie, energy, and heart goal that it sets for you. I purchased the heart monitor, so it really keeps track of my heart rate, so I know I am getting proper credit for how hard I am actually working out. There is also an online community.
Slimcoach Cons:
The online community is super clunky. I don't use the one on fitbit.com, but I have in the past and it is super user friendly. This one is not. Not in anyway. If I was looking for support from an online community and I was using this device. I would look somewhere else. The device itself is awkward, I find that clipping on my pocket or waistband as suggested does not work. I hit it on cabinets, it gets caught on doorways as I walk through. It has hit the floor more times than I can count and the surface of it is already scratched up. The activity plan that it sets at first is almost too easy. I find myself doubling the required calorie burn watching tv and never leaving my house. I have it on the "challenge me" option, I do not feel challenged. As a matter of fact, I have found myself giving myself liberties with it because it expects so little of me at this point. The meal plans are nice, but I find that it is difficult to find a lot of the ingredients at your local Wal-Mart. Whole Foods is the nearest store to me that carries a lot of these items and it's an hour and a half away, so I end up swapping everything out because it not accessible for me. I haven't even figured out how to log food that is not pre-suggested because the website is not simple to use, nor does it have instructions or even a place that is easy to find the answers you need. I find the entire site stylized with little accessibility, and short on substance.
This is my "surface" opinion and I vow to continue using both for awhile and keeping you updated.
Have an opinion on the Slimcoach? Let me know. Questions or thoughts, leave them in the comments and I will answer them as best I can.
Today's spark: Be the best me I can be for me.
Must move on.
I don't want to write about my feelings today, so I am going to give you my thoughts on my first week or so with the slimcoach.
Slimcoach Pros:
When you start off using it, in the computer set-up process it asks you what your weight loss goals are, then it asks you how quickly you want to achieve them. In doing so, it creates both a meal plan and a activity plan for you. It starts you off slowly and then builds so that you are truly building up to a higher activity level slowly. The meal plans are nice. Where the Fitbit lets you log your food. This actually gives you what you should eat. Don't like the selected meal? Hit the swap button and it populates a list of acceptable swaps. Don't know how to make the suggested meal? The recipe is just a click away. When you click the button the circle on the outside of the device changes from red to green as you reach your fitness goal for the day, click it again and it will show you where you are with the calorie, energy, and heart goal that it sets for you. I purchased the heart monitor, so it really keeps track of my heart rate, so I know I am getting proper credit for how hard I am actually working out. There is also an online community.
Slimcoach Cons:
The online community is super clunky. I don't use the one on fitbit.com, but I have in the past and it is super user friendly. This one is not. Not in anyway. If I was looking for support from an online community and I was using this device. I would look somewhere else. The device itself is awkward, I find that clipping on my pocket or waistband as suggested does not work. I hit it on cabinets, it gets caught on doorways as I walk through. It has hit the floor more times than I can count and the surface of it is already scratched up. The activity plan that it sets at first is almost too easy. I find myself doubling the required calorie burn watching tv and never leaving my house. I have it on the "challenge me" option, I do not feel challenged. As a matter of fact, I have found myself giving myself liberties with it because it expects so little of me at this point. The meal plans are nice, but I find that it is difficult to find a lot of the ingredients at your local Wal-Mart. Whole Foods is the nearest store to me that carries a lot of these items and it's an hour and a half away, so I end up swapping everything out because it not accessible for me. I haven't even figured out how to log food that is not pre-suggested because the website is not simple to use, nor does it have instructions or even a place that is easy to find the answers you need. I find the entire site stylized with little accessibility, and short on substance.
This is my "surface" opinion and I vow to continue using both for awhile and keeping you updated.
Have an opinion on the Slimcoach? Let me know. Questions or thoughts, leave them in the comments and I will answer them as best I can.
Today's spark: Be the best me I can be for me.
Can you tell me how to set the heart monitor up with the slimcoach. There are no instructions that make any sense.
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