Weight / Fat loss

What do you lot do to keep willpower going?

I'm awful at it (admittedly beer doesn't help) but thoughts?

The band is alright, app is very weak. Thats the key with wearables I think, shit app and great hardware is going to get you nowhere.

Would be interesting to know your thoughts on the whole Mi experience. Make sure you integrate it with Google Fit to get the most out. This where FitBit wins, their app is quite good so you dont have to depend on a third party app. Their hardware is grossly overpriced but then again fashion (I guess).

The Withings app seemed decent when I used it. I preferred it to the Fitbit app

Just had a look at that, looks like Xiaomi tried to copy it really badly with Mi.

I'm still debating a Fitbit Charge HR ... but I read that the HR bit is terrible. Are they really worth getting? My phone has moves on it, but I don't always have my phone on me

The HR seems OK to me. What had you read?

The fact there is a class action against them over it

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10724270/fitbit-lawsuit-charge-hr-surge-incomplete-heart-rate-tracking

Managed a light lunch.
Then a couple protein bars.
Did a 80min turbo session.

Wasnt too bad. Still not confident farting without sitting on the toilet. So needed a bit more mental strength than usual.

Haha, commitment!

Wasnt so risky considering my cleverly customised turbo set up.

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I recently bought a Garmin vivosmart hr. The logic is that all the data goes to Garmin connect, which I already understand. One nice aspect is that I don't have wear a HR strap during rides. However I linked my Garmin connect to myfitnesspal which was a huge error. Now the stupid thing keeps telling me to eat more :-S

Date Weight
04-Jan 122.8
11-Jan 118.2
18-Jan 116.4
25-Jan 114.6
01-Feb 113.7
08-Feb 111.3
15-Feb 109.5
22-Feb 108.2
01-Mar 107.1

Too many of granny Vi's scones at the farm this weekend. Was too polite to turn them down.

I cant imagine anyone willingly wanting to be part of the garmin eco-system ;)

In an ideal world Apple/Android should take care of the app side of things natively and far far better than fitbit/garmin/withings etc. The less parties involved in this the better. Currently the landscape is too crowded and incompatible.

Compatible hardware should just be an extension which should come down in cost by about 1/10th of what it is and sold as 'fashion' by asos or something.

fitbit not talking to apple health was a dealbreaker for me when looking for a wearable to purchase. was considering the microsoft band (2) as it seemed a bit happier syncing, had on-board gps as well as the hr doodad, but in the end went for an apple watch. ho hum. no complaints with it really, but it feels like overkill for a fitness band and underkill for anything else.

How is strava on apple watch? And do you just use Apple Health for fitness tracking (HR mainly)?

No problems with the Garmin setup so far. The graphics are pretty easy to understand, and it sorts all my activity data so I know what it all means

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I've always used a proper garmin for strava-ing so can't comment on that bit.

I've apple-watched in tandem with power meter to compare calorie burn and it seems close enough that for commutes/ general bike messing about/rides where either using a garmin or garmin/hr combo is a faff I'm happy to let the watch take the strain.

For general activity (running about, walks, etc) it seems very good at catching anything over baseline, as well as logging general through-the-day HR (not constant, spot readings only). Plus the daily goal thing has provided some activity prompts during my more sedentary wfh days.

I've got my Strava plugging into Healthkit along with daily step counts/activity burn from the watch etc, which then feeds into Myfitnesspal to tell me to eat more/less, and it's a system I'm happy with. Plus the watch is still providing novelty for phone notifications etc, and the mfp app provides an on-watch 'how many calories left for the day' number so its one less thing to stare at the phone for.

All in all, a very expensive tool but no regrets. If you're not already heavily invested the ecosystem probably not worth it.

@tricitybendix has had one since xmas had has just finished a unbroken month-long activity streak so is probably better qualified to comment on how it does everything really.

Yeah thats kind of why I got the vivosmart. It does all phone notifications and has a builtin vibrate for alarm/wake up. Of course it can't do iTunes control etc, but then again it only cost me £90

Great to hear that.

I am all android atm so can't get one .. there are cheaper android alternatives but not as appealing (polished) as apple.

Still needs a lot of trickle down overall.

The Apple Watch activity app works very well as a behaviour change tool because the rings look so satisfying when they're all complete. /ocd

There's a ring for calorie goal (mine is 580 a day which is pretty easy to hit if I cycle in and home), activity (time spent with your HR above resting) and stands (you have to stand at least one minute of each hour for 12 hours to complete the ring).

The only problem is it doesn't have the same satisfying gamification trick for keeping your calories low and consequently I have lost very little weight. But I am very good at walking up all 14 flights of stairs at work.

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Interesting to hear.

I always though folk on here (and regular cyclists/runner/fit people in general) wouldnt see incentives/gamification as a plus.

I personally don't, my resting HR and weighing scales tells me all I need to know.

Targets for sure.

Is there a setting to have HR monitoring constantly on in apple watch?

Not that I know of. Think it would shred the battery life tbh. It looks like it checks up on you every 10 mins or so:

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A lot of this has been covered elsewhere: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/234507/

You can train your willpower. I found thinking something negative about "bad" food whenever I saw it was good for resisting the office snacks. So someone puts a stack of doughnuts out and I would think "those things will kill me". Made it a lot easier to resist.

Mine died after 6 months so I got a refund.