Totally Losing It

Well, I did it. I did my part in trying to stimulate the economy by buying something with my extra tax refund money. I got a treadmill!

Please ignore the mess to the front of it.

You can see that I didn’t finish putting the darn thing together. It’s a Pro Form cross-walker so it has arms that you can hold on to and use as though you’re walking with walking poles. They’ll have to wait until tomorrow night to get installed. Stupid thing gave me a headache. I swear the people who design the machines and the people who figure out how to build it so it can be put together by a consumer are geniuses. Evil geniuses. The manual made perfect sense to me. After I got my dad to help me!

Anyway, it got put together and now I have my own treadmill! And it’s right under a ceiling fan! I’m really excited about that.

I hope everyone had a great weekend and that you’re ready to get going with the upcoming week. I weigh-in Tuesday morning so hopefully I’ll have some more good new then!

I love gadgets! I really do. Luckily I’ve found a few things that I’ll qualify as gadgets to help me with my healthier lifestyle. I only own one of the following products but as I collect more and more nifty little things, I’ll update you and let you know what I think of them.

First is the DietMinder Personal Food and Fitness Journal. I bought this when I bought my calorie counter book and Bob Harper’s “Are You Ready?”. I like being able to keep track of everything I eat. I use The Daily Plate for that online, but that’s not always convenient. Plus, I wanted to try this out because I might pick up one of these for both of my parents. I do like it that much. It has room for everything I wanted: weight, measurements, food, water, fitness, and even a small space for personal notes. Very functional and efficient. If you go to the website you can see a sample of the inside pages.

Okay, so that’s the one product that I’ve gotten for myself. So far.

This next product I just saw on a blog this morning and can’t for the life of me remember where. Sorry. But I still wanted to let you know about it. It’s Cereal On the Go. Another functional product, assuming you have a use for an on-the-go cereal holder! The best part about this product though is that you won’t need to carry a separate container to hold your milk and the spoon is included! How much more convenient can it get?

I’m definitely making note of this… I have a mom who would eat cereal for every meal of the day if my dad wouldn’t mind! Mother’s Day is right around the corner…

By the way, I found this product at several online stores but Dorm Buys has the best price that I saw.

And since I’m all about convenience this next product sounds almost too good to be true. The BioTrainer Weight Loss System. According to the website:

The BioTrainer™ is a scientifically proven medical-quality monitor that very accurately computes and stores both your physical activity and the calories you burn during all types of daily exercise routines.

The BioTrainer will help motivate you to become more active, and to stay that way. The unit has a storage capacity of 9-days and is especially useful for recording “DAILY LIFESTYLE ACTIVITY” in applications involving Obesity, Weight-Loss, Health, Fitness and Aerobic Exercise.

The price is about right too. $49.95 for the gadget alone. If you want the online tools to help track and monitor your progress the cost is more, of course. You could just go whole hog and order the one year of online monitoring and get the monitor itself for free.

I won’t be purchasing this right away, not until I do more research and find out if there are other, better products available. But this looked interesting and the price is right in my ballpark.

For now I’ll stick to my calorie book and a few online tools.