I'm not a coffee drinker, but my partner is. I've been making her coffee every morning for the past 5 years and we use a pod machine. However, we have two refillable metal cups to use in a single serving keurig machine. No waste, fresh ground beans, easy 12oz cup every time. I love the simple setup and I love no used pods in my garbage!
I have a fitbit for myself that syncs with my phone to use for my actifit step-tracking reports. That gives me plenty of health data, so I don't feel the need for the oura ring. But my sister has had one for four years and swears by it. She loves the peace of mind she gets from bring able to keep track of all her personal health data.
At least over the last few weeks, I have been much better with both my diet and exercise.
Congrats buddy. Love that for you! I haven't been at all consistent with working out, but I regularly get 10K steps on the days I work at school. I have been maniacally careful about my food intake, keeping a food journal and logging everything I've been eating since the first weekend of the new year.
Just the process of journaling about what I'm eating has helped me be more picky and stick to the plan. No seed oils, no processed sugar, 1800cal/day for a 300 deficit. So far, so good, down 10 lbs in the new year so far. Long may it continue!
I am the only coffee drinker in the house. My wife drinks about 15 gallons of tea a day though.
Good to hear that your sister likes the Oura. I wish they offered a "home market discount" (it is Finnish) or at least a free membership. I reckon that once a company goes global, they should support the taxpayers that helped them get there.
Do you think you would care as much without the fitbit?
You are keen!
Perhaps I should do the same. Journaling gives something tangible to reflect on.
I wouldn't care at all without the Fitbit. It wasn't something I even considered, although I know I was relatively active since I walk to work and public transport everywhere I go in NYC. But once I saw that Hive had incentives to reward me for tracking my daily activity, I was sold. I specifically got a Fitbit for its app integration with actifit!
In fact, knowing I get those elevated step counts for daily activity provides me some level of excuse to not push myself to do more rigorous workouts, calisthenics, weight training, etc. I think to myself that if I'm getting my 10K steps, do I really need to make time to stretch or to throw some kettlebells around?
And with actifit, I view those entries more as a daily journal than simply tracking my activity for the day. I like flipping through my gallery to find an eye-catching picture or two and it also lets me upload screenshots of my Fitbit data so I can see my stats and peak activity time each day. It is a fun habit, although my daily writing is much less structured than yours. Typically when I make my reports, it's 11:30pm and I'm furiously typing away on my phone to submit the report before the midnight cutoff erases the record of my previous day's step count.
Long live the Fitbit!