So last week I bought myself a Fitbit flex. If you don’t know what one is, it is kind of like the Nike Fuel+ bands. If you don’t know what that is either, well it’s like a pedometer, however it sits on your wrist and helps monitor your movements and your activities throughout the day.

When I got it, I was a bit suprised as you can see from the box, it is a wrist band obviously

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What you don’t realise is that the actual “Flex” itself is tiny! Not even the size of my pinky finger.

From Seattle Life 2013

It is suprisingly small and yet does so much! One thing I really like about it is the fact that I don’t even realise I am wearing it. I could wear it all day and not even notice it was there. Maybe I was used to it from the powerband that I had on my wrist for almost 3 years. It doesn’t move about at all and thankfully it is water resistant, meaning I don’t need to take it off while I swim or shower.

Actually using the flex is pretty simple. Sadly my phone isn’t compatible with the sync software (not all android phones are) but the newer ones are and so are iphones. My laptop is also not compatible but that is not suprising, no one likes it! So at the moment till I get a new phone, it will only sync at home. I barely have to even go near my pc and it will sync itself. I just walk past it, or near it, or go to the tap, it can even sync from my bedroom.. I think.

It tracks my steps pretty well and although the calories I am burning, I am not quite sure of yet, it looks ok to me. One of the things that a lot of people said did not work was the sleep monitoring. Although it is a bit difficult to get it going (you have to tap it for 1 to 2 seconds, though sometimes it takes more) the sleep stats are one of the more suprising bits of information for me to comprehend. I have always known I don’t sleep well, what I didn’t know was just how many times during the night I got up. I am waking up on average around 6-8 times a night. I can usually only remember 2 or 3. But its consistent, it’s not as if it is one night at 6 or something. It’s every night. I am not sure how accurate it is, but seriously that can’t be a good thing!

What I will have to do is keep it up and see how it goes, I wouldn’t mind revisiting the stats in a month or so and see how it looks