It is nearing the end of December and the New Year is shoving itself to the forefront of everyone's mind. All the Christmas goodies have been consumed or given away in festive holiday containers to family and friends. Leaving many of us looking at the calendar and wondering which day to begin storing away our exuberant display Christmas decorations; or deciding which holiday cards to keep or recycle.
I, however, I am spending my morning staring out my office window at a profusion of lovely southern California greenery, listening to "The Martini Station" on Slacker Radio and slipping a cup of warm water (flavored with a bit of lemon) and tormenting myself with my Digital Fitness Monitor. The same Digital Fitness Monitor I purchase with my birthday gift cards (I am a June baby).
Mind you, I'd much rather be working on my next release: "Gumbo Ya Ya: for women who like romance Cajun and men HOT & SPICY!" Instead, I'm crawling on the floor to insert a tiny usb thingy into the center of my PC tower (why is the tower/tower door covers and background/ and the 'usb thingy' the same shiny shade of black? Why? Camouflage, maybe? No. No, that can't be the reason. The real reason being: black is the perfect venue to highlight 'finger-print' marks. Thankfully, for my sanity's sake, the monitor and wearable clip is in a somewhat-eye-catching shade of burgundy. (Easily located in the bottom of my black-lined handbag where the device may reside if things don't go well during our 'honeymoon stage".)
That said, I'm back on my PC, where, after rotating though an endless round of 'personal' questions on the set-up and download screen, I'm ready to begin. Unfortunately my device needs to have the battery charged for two hours. You guessed it, I'm back on the floor yanking out the usb sync device and replacing it with the tiny (black) charger while trying to decide which end of the burgundy fitness monitor to shove into the charging unit.
Success!
While I am waiting, reach for my iPhone and log on to MyFitnessPal with it's scanner and pre-programmed/personalized selection of my fave, and often selected foods, over the past three years. Even though it's time for a change (I did join an upgraded gym six months ago), and those same twenty pounds have come and gone. . .and returned numerous times over the past five years. Change is always a challenge.
Is this a challenge I'll like? I very much doubt it--I love my coffee (Starbucks: Gingerbread Latte, hold the whip) way too much. Will I give my new digital fitness monitor the old college try? Yes. After all what choice do I have (the darn thing was expensive!). I'll grumble, I'll complain, but I will use the digital device. After all, "Ask Dr. K", newspaper columnist and physician and professor at Harvard Medical School, says that most people use the devices and adopt a healthier lifestyle. He also has the results of surveys and studies to backup his findings.
I can't argue with proven success.
However, I draw the like at wearing the device while I sleep--I don't care if a wrist band, complete with Velcro fastening--and you guess it--in a nice shiny shade of black, came in the package!
Wishing you a New Year filled with joy and many blessing, as well as an E-Reader filled with wonderful stories from Books We Love Authors.
See you next month!
Connie
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Digital Fitness Monitor--The Gift That Won't Stop Giving by Connie Vines
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Physical Fitness - Getting there since my study has been moved to the second floor and I must make multiple trips to the first floor to tend to husband who is improving. If I could just remember to take down the things I will need or bring them up when I come, I could save myself half of the dozen times I travel the seventeed steps a day. But I have noticed not weight loss but some tightening of muscles allowed to grow slack over the years. Good luck to you with your writing and your new gadget
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