End of First Day

Anyways, this ends the first day with my new Mio. It's entertaining, and helpful, I think. I think because it's efficacy is still undetermined.

It will be a helpful gadget if it guides me towards meeting my stated goal of losing 2 lbs. this week. That means a weigh-in of 208 lbs. on Sat. morning.

If I have an issue thus far, it's the Net Calories feature. This is a helpful feature, I suppose, but I'm unsure what number to shoot for. To explain, they have a Target Calories to shoot for each day. Then, the instructions indicate that I should aim to consume that number of calories on that particular day. This is where my issue comes in.

In the next sentence, you're instructed to keep an eye on the calorie bar across the top of the watch. It gives you a visual graph of the number of calories consumed that counts towards your Net Calories for the day.

If your calorie bar gets full, or close to the end, you're instructed to eat less or exercise more to reduce your Net. So is the idea to simply keep the calorie bar from reaching full, and ignore your Target Number of calories? I ain't making it up.

By the way, I made this post from my phone. It only allows 1,000 characters. So if my explanation was a bit Delphic, I'm blaming it on Verizon.

First Day With My Mio

So, at 5 AM I drug my ass to the gym, which was made easier by the time change. I ran on the treadmill for 35 minutes with a 5 minute cool down. My trusty new Mio said I burned 719 calories. So my Net Calories reading is -719 to begin the day.

Today I'm supposed to consume 2,350 calories (the goal is to lose 2lbs/week--right now). If I hit that number, my Net Calorie reading will be 1631. I guess we will see how it goes. I do have to admit, however, 1,631 calories seems like an absurdly low number for someone my size (6'2", 210). So I'm going to monitor my energy levels and adjust my caloric intake as needed.

No, this isn't turning into a fitness blog. It's just that I bought this thing and want to use it. And since this is my blog,not yours, I'll write about whatever I want. I ain't making it up.

Mio Watch

So anyway, I went to the mall yesterday. I needed to buy a new sport watch. The wristband to my Nike watch, after less than a year, snapped off in a manner that makes it irreparable. So I went to Sports Authority to buy a new sports watch. And because this is the second time this has happened, I wasn't going to buy another Nike sports watch, and neither should you.

I settled on a Mio Watch. It's like a personal trainer on your wrist, or so they say. I'm not certain how I feel about that. Whenever I think of personal trainers, I think of some meat head screaming at me, and me slapping the shit out of him with a dumbbell. Then, a trial that ends up with a face-to-face meeting with Bubba. If it's all the same to you, I'll pass on incarceration. So I generally stay away from personal trainers.

But back to the watch. You enter your age, weight, fitness goal and all that. Then, it gives you a target for number of calories to be consumed in a day. It also tracks your heart rate and counts calories burned during your workout. So it seems like a pretty spiffy gadget. An unexpected spiffy gadget in my case. I was just looking for a sport watch that tracked my heart rate with reasonable accuracy. This thing is dead on accurate, which isn't creepy, or even creepish, but it is a creepism. I ain't making it up.