Jawbone Up: Review

Packaging it comes in (not my actual Jawbone)

Recently I purchased the Jawbone Up band to help kick start this healthier lifestyle that I'm trying to live. By using this fitness tracker it has motivated me to move more, take more walks, eat healthier and go to bed a decent hour. 

The jawbone that I have is the regular one that cost $80.00 at best buy. I connect it  to my iphone and it track my steps, sleep and food intake. It is a rubber cuff that's embedded with motion sensor technology to track sleep, steps active time and idle time. You can manually enter activities such as yoga or cycling since these are non-step activities. It comes in 8 different colors and also has a band that allows you to connect via bluetooth no matter what or where. It has a battery life of 10 days so you don't have to worry about charging it every day. I've been taking mine off while I shower and letting it charge. 

Sleep Patterns 

I have weird sleep patterns and I'm always going to bed at a reasonable hour (or so I think ) but I still feel tired and grumpy when I wake up. Could be the fact that I'm not a morning person. But I wanted to know more about my sleep patterns. The band allows you to track your light vs. deep sleep, the number of times you wake up and how long it took you to fall asleep.You are able to set a goal of how much sleep you want to get each night. Right now my goal is 8 hours. I tend to meet my goal most nights. 

Meals

I've used myfitnesspal.com for the longest to track what I ate. Many times you have to manually put in what you ate or cooked. This is the same way you have to input your meals on jawbone. It gives you the option to take photo of your food and/or scan the barcode, but the feature hasn't worked on my phone/app since I started so I just manually put the foods I've eaten in myself. I try to track everything as much as possible so far so good. My only issue is I always forget to put my food in and sometimes the foods I eat aren't in the database. 

Physical Activity 

I've lacked in the area of doing physical activity besides walking with the band on. But it does show how many steps that you've taken for the day and also the number of calories you've burned. It does really good at tracking the number of steps that I've taken at games and throughout the day at work. Hopefully if my plan to go to the gym this evening works out I'll be able to give a review on the data that is pulls when I work out. 

Overall, I like the jawbone. I've got annoyed a few times when I was sleeping with having it on (I'm a wild sleeper) but other than that I enjoy it and the results so far. I'd rather be tracking something versus tracking nothing.