Water Intake

The other day I saw a cool new water bottle in Target. The price was kinda steep, but it may be worth it. It's called a Hidrate Spark. The gimmick with the Hidrate Spark is that it helps you track your water intake. You install their app. You calibrate the bottle. It uses two CR2023 batteries. It connects to your app via bluetooth, and it reports your water intake. It's pretty simple. You can connect the app to other fitness apps, like Fitbit. So I can easily track my water intake in my Fitbit app now. It cost $45. If you are wanting an easy way to track your water intake, it's definitely a good water bottle for that.

I have only been using it for two days. So far I've been lagging behind in my water intake. My goal is set to around 114 ounces. That is a lot of water to get down in a day.

Today, I was a little behind in steps, and I was running low on hours before midnight. We also had fireworks in town. I ended up getting in a twenty-three hours fast. I made my "feeding" window one hour today. After I ate, I gave myself about 20 minutes before I jumped on the treadmill. I had about thirty minutes before midnight to walk and get in as many steps as I could. I ended up getting around 8200. I kept going till around 2:00 am. My total was two hours and twenty minutes. It's 3:30 am and I have 13,500 steps already for the day. I'm going to get in another two hours this evening and shoot for 25,000 steps today.

I've never been an exerciser. I used to run a bit back in my twenties, but I hurt my left ankle and gave it up. I spent my latter twenties and all of my thirties gaining weight and being pretty inactive. I have a lot of stored energy. Well that's one way to put it anyway.

So, I'm working on getting my water intake up. I thought I was drinking a lot more, but this bottle is telling me different. Also, my first calibration of the bottle made it report the wrong amount of water. It was nearly triple the actual intake. So I had to recalibrate it. After that it seems to work perfectly.