Less than three weeks shy of my Fitbit's second birthday, during which time there was only ONE day that I forgot to wear it, I lost it. I always took it off when I got to yoga and clipped it to my purse, then put it back on after class. For some reason, on June 18, I didn't put it back on immediately after class. I realized this when I got in the house, went to grab it, and it was gone. I checked my house, my car, my garage, it wasn't there. Which meant I lost it between the yoga studio and my car.
Unfortunately, the yoga studio I go to recently moved, and instead of being in their own place, they now occupy one room in a giant building filled with all types of random businesses. Â There's no front desk, no central location or phone number to call. I emailed the owners of the studio about having lost it, with a picture of it, and never heard back. I posted on Craigslist and got nothing. I asked around at my next class and nobody knew anything. I gave up.
I told my ex-boyfriend, who gave it to me for my birthday two years ago, and told him to email Fitbit to see if they would send a replacement. I had gotten him one for his birthday last year, and it fell off after a few weeks. I emailed Fitbit on his behalf and they sent a free one right away. He said if Fitbit wouldn't replace it, he'd get me one for my birthday. Well, Fitbit said they'd sell me one for $50, since it would be an "upgrade" (I had an Ultra and now I'd have to get a One). I told him to buy me a Withings Pulse instead. Of course, faced with the option of a $100 Pulse and a $50 Fitbit, he wanted to go with Fitbit. So I got the Pulse and he gave me $50. It worked.
I'm not 100% thrilled with the Pulse...it doesn't seem to track steps quite as accurately as the Fitbit. My phone is consistently counting way more steps by the end of the day, and I don't always have my phone in my pocket like I do the Pulse. With the Fitbit, the phone was always very close to spot-on or a little under. There's also no way to change the step goal with the Pulse -- 10,000 is the goal for everyone. When I looked in to changing it, I found a Facebook post and a Tweet, both from over a year ago, asking if this feature would be implemented, and Withings responded that it would be "this summer," i.e. summer 2013. Â I posted on their Facebook and tweeted at them yesterday to point that out, and they said they are still working on it as other things came up that took priority. Ugh.
I don't come anywhere near 10,000 these days. I'm lucky to get 5,000. (Lots of reasons have contributed to this...I used to average between 7,500 and 10,000 daily). I'd like to have a goal closer to 5,000 so that when I get close, I can push myself to get there. With a goal of 10,000, it just seems unattainable and I feel like I shouldn't bother.
The heart rate feature is nice, and the blood oxygen measure is gimmicky but I liked that I could get it through a free firmware upgrade on the older device, which saved me almost $30 over buying the new one (it was $92 on Amazon vs. $119.99 for the Pulse O2), where the only difference would have been the addition of a wristband that I would never have used.
I'm also extremely bummed right now because my yoga studio cancelled the class I've been going to for 6 months. I was only able to go on Mondays at 4:30 due to my work schedule, but I loved that class and I love the instructor. I was able to change my schedule starting at the beginning of June so I could go to both days of the class, Mondays and Wednesdays, which I've been doing and have loved. I was just telling my boyfriend after last Monday's class how cool it was that I had finally found this little community of people, since there are 3 or 4 others who regularly go to that class and we've gotten comfortable with each other. So when I showed up on Wednesday and learned that the Monday class on June 30 would be the last one, I bawled. Â I cried through class, I sobbed when I got home. I felt like this thing I had finally settled into had just been ripped away from me. Â Unfortunately, this is a recurring theme in my life (though typically with people and relationships) that has caused a lot of trauma, so this was a really hard blow. And it keeps getting worse. The instructor didn't even know her class was being cancelled. She found out Tuesday night when she happened to look at the schedule online. To top it all off, there are now ZERO basic classes offered. Here's what shows up on the front page of their website:
This is now a lie. I sent an email last week to the owners, who I know personally (their kids used to go to the school where I teach, two of them were in my class) to express how sad and disappointed I am in this schedule change. I finally got a response yesterday that I felt was a total brush off. Â I'm angry and I'm sad. I have a membership through next February or March so I can't stop going. I'm going to try a class called "Evening Flow" tomorrow night, immediately followed by one called "Yin / Restorative." Â Even though I've been going regularly since the end of December, I'm still not very good and I think anything other than a basic class is going to be a huge challenge for me. Â The instructor I love is teaching a class on Monday nights now called "Asana and Meditation" and she said the difficulty level will depend on who shows up. Â I'm going to try it since I like her style so much, but I'm not hopeful that it will be easy. The basic class has still been hard for me.
So. This has been an update on sad things in my life, brought to you by my procrastination of getting all my work done for my Montessori certification, which I absolutely must finish this week while my school is closed as I have my exams in Chicago next weekend. So much to do. And I'm all out of Diet Coke. :(
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