I have been given...

What is it?

I'm frightened to ask

Oh hell! I sympathise DH gave me this bloody exercise thing called a Powerball - hope the charity bag comes soon.

I would love a Fitbit I have an App on my phone that does similar thing but its not quite the same... plenty of walking for you then?

I am NOT joining that 10 thousand mile walking club they've got going on here. Def!

Galen, you affix it to your person, somewhere. And it watches your every movement. In the hope that you actually make some. (movement)

It will even watch you while you sleep

If you want exercise that apparently works but hate the gym why not see if there's a Gymophobics group near you. 8 machines and 2 mats with exercises levels to suit you and from which you can progress its really good - so far! And I hate gyms. It's run by 'ordinary' trained people not health fanatics and there's no Lycra. Sessions last half an hour - longer if you like to chat or have a coffee. I try and go 3x a week.

What do you call a Fitbit without a battery ? - an elastic band

It would go to sleep with boredom on me! I'm pretty well confined to my chair. The only movement is index finger on iPad and elbow in glass lifting!

Galen

I've been given one, too, jingle. My son's partner insists it was his idea, not hers. She's worried I will not look after the kids or talk to her again!
Mine's a Garmin vivofit. I like it when the red band tells me I've been sitting down for at least an hour!

I'm also intrigued by the fact that it monitors what you do in bed!

I do not do much in bed, mishap, so that's okay. It's not a chip welded under your skin.
You tell it what time you go to bed and what time you wake up. Then it assumes you are asleep during that time.
What I found interesting today was that my son's partner has one with GPS because they go running. When we were in M&S cafe, her's changed a few seconds behind mine, even though they are both the same system. My granddaughter could not decide which was right, particularly as I was wearing another watch which gave a different time.

I'm going to take my little friend for a walk this morning (there will be possible retail therapy involved and a mince pie so it's not all bad).

jen, it probably was your son's idea. Mine was a gift from son. They start worrying about us as we get a bit older. The daughters don't.

I am not taking mine for a walk this morning. Window cleaner has just been and warned me there is sheet black ice all the way down the hill to the village, even though the sun is now out.
Anyway, I need to find out whether it is satisfied with me just walking round the house.

Are you supposed to attach it to your nightie, the minute your feet touch the bedroom floor.? I sometimes clean the grate out, wash up and do a bit of hoovering before I get dressed.

My son says I could wear it in the shower to add a few more steps as it's waterproof. I refuse.
I put on an extra hundred by brushing my teeth vigorously the first night. Unfortunately that did not count as it was just before midnight, and the next time I looked it said 0.

It'd hit the bin if I got one. I feel we are watched too much as it is these days. I would love to go back to the days without mobile phones when you could go out and no one knew where you were. Oh, the feeling of freedom.

What would you clip it to (in the shower)? #themindboggles

ruby It can't track you down. It records the number of steps you take and the calories burnt doing them. (can it distinguish between uphill and on-the-flat though! that's what I want to know) Apart from that, it tells you the time, and smiles at you. [shrug]

I am not wearing it round the house. I don't think staggering from one chore to the next can really count as exercise.

It can measure gradients jings not sure if you have to set that or if it does it automatically...
It will also measure the quality of your sleep my daughter sometimes uses that function to see how much sleep she actually has as she has trouble sleeping and is usually surprised that she sleeps a whole lot more than she thinks she does.. its probably all in the mind but she feels much better if it tells her she's had a fairly restful night.. at least she's not worrying about how much sleep she's had anymore.

I do not clip mine to anything, jingl. It's like a wristwatch, so at the moment I wear one on each wrist.
If you wear it when doing housework, you will be surprised how many steps you take.

You've got a posher one than me!!!

I'm telling him!!!