On Instagram, there
is a gal who does work-out challenges for quilters. #sweatnsew or #sweatandsew she gives out prizes for working out and
sewing!
Everyone is posting
their Polar FT4 heart rate monitor watches with how many calories they’ve
burned and these quilters have been getting skinny since January.
Maybe it’s time to
jump on the band wagon! So, I research
calorie counting devices. I decide on
the Polar FT4 like everyone else. I
haaave to have it!
I wait past my
birthday, I decide on something a painting instead. But then weeks later I neeeed it!!! So I decide to just spend the $. Of course I don’t want the cheap one that my
brother can get me thru his work for $60, b/c it’s not cute. I haaave to have the white one!
I call my friend who
is a platinum Amazon shopper. She says
she still has the free 2 day shipping and asks what I want. I tell her over text while shopping at TJMaxx
and within 3 minutes, she’s found the lowest price on Amazon and ordered it up –
2 day delivery!
Wha-hoo!! (This ‘cute’ version is of course NOT $60 but
$100). Can you say snob!
2 days later,
(Friday) as promised she calls and says it’s arrived! Yeah!
I rush over after work, give her cash and open it up and play
around. Do I go to the gym right then
and there?
NO. So Saturday I get it out and set my personal
settings on the watch and watch some tv and… who knows. But Saturday night I think, ‘hey, I had this
2 day delivered I better get going to the gym!’
This is what I’ve been waiting for.
But… I can’t find the strap and transmitter.
I search
everywhere. Car, bag, box, purse, floor,
couch, room, garage, driveway… no transmitter.
I text my friend and say, ‘hey, did I leave the heart rate transmitter
and strap on your kitchen counter’. She
says, ‘I don’t know, we’re in Utah for 5 weeks!’ MAYDAY! I beg her for a hidden key and alarm
code. No go. No key.
MAYDAY again!
I just had this RUSH
delivered so I would be motivated to work out!
And now… I may not have access to the band for 5 weeks?! This called for some recon. I immediately drive to her house, scale the
fence to the backyard, peek in the kitchen window that the blinds are up about
3” and, there is the band and transmitter!
Shizzards.
So depressed.
The next day she
texts me that her hubby has a meeting in AZ on Thursday and he can put it on
the porch for me! Hoorah!
Sadly, it’s
impossible to work out without said transmitter bc working out without the
calorie burning counter means I’ve burned no calories and my efforts are
fruitless. This is the lie I tell
myself.
Thursday she texts
me that he’s home and the strap and transmitter are on the pillar! Yeah!
I promptly drive over and pick it up! Joy! Do I work out Thursday night. No.
Saturday morning I
think, ‘Today is the day!!’ Can I find
the stupid transmitter and strap… NO.
not in the car, my purse, the garage, the bushes… I retrace all my steps
from the last 2 days. I drive everywhere
I went in the last 2 days looking on the ground in case it fell off my lap when
I got out of the car. Nada. I check
every purse I’ve used this month and NO transmitter/strap! Holy WTH!
I go eat fries at my
frustration.
So, the next week I
google the strap and transmitter and bid on a couple on ebay and can’t
win. I am SUCKING at this working out
thing all because of a stupid device!
Finally, I email Polar and tell them my dilema. They promptly email me back and direct me to
a site where I can purchase the transmitter and strap for $48. $48!!!!!!!!!!!! No way!
Gasp. I peruse the site and find
the pink watch and transmitter and strap for only $17 more! The whole shabang! I think, ‘I’m going to find that damn
transmitter at some point, why not just have 2 sets and I can sell one’. So I order the pink set and BAM $65 later….
I anxiously await
the delivery of my new fancy calorie counting watch because life will begin
when I know how many calories I burn during a regular work day. Losing weight is all about the math right?! 3800 calories = 1 lb. They say we burn 1500-2500 calories a day in
our daily activities and if I eat 1200 calories a day then I’ll lose…. Blah blah
blah a week. I NEED this device to MAKE
me do extra activity! My life will be
complete when I have this and I. Will. Get. Skinny!!!
The day I open the
mailbox and find a key in it to the larger boxes I squeel! Um, the key is jacked and it takes me 15
minutes to figure out which box the key opens and I wrestle with the box b/c
NOTHING IS EASY. Opening the mailbox burns
60 calories I bet! I jaunt home and toss
the new pretty on the counter and lay on the couch. At 9 I think, ah, too late to work-out, I’ll
go sew something.
I mosey upstairs to
the craft room and think, this joint is a pig-sty! I start picking up and cleaning and putting
things I’ve dumped in there away. Hey,
there’s a bag w/ scrapbook paper in it – when did I buy scrapbook paper and why….
Why is this sack of paper so heavy…
HOW DID MY HEART
RATE TRANSMITTER AND STRAP GET IN THIS SCRAPBOOK PAPER
BAG???????????????????????????????????????????????
Wow! Am I blonde or whaaat, say wahhhat! Ya.
The. Day. The. New. $65 pretty arrives in. the. Mail!!!! Ding-Dong.
Sweet, I can return it unopened!
Now, you’re
wondering if I strapped that thing on and did a work-out riiiight????
Yes. The next morning I strap it on, hoist it up
under my bra, set start and head to the car.
I’m so excited to see how many calories I burn sitting at work J
Start the car.
Beeeeppppp
BeeeeeppppppHRM watch says, CHECK TRANSMITTER.
WTH!
Get to work, go in
the bathroom, wet the strap down, try again.
3 min. later – CHECK TRANSMITTER!
You have got to be kidding me. At
lunch I run to staples and buy a new battery and stick it in – so excited! Beeeepppp
CHECK TRANSMITTER.
Ya – this thing
BITES!
That night, I call
my friend who has one and say, meet me at the gym I need your help. She jiggles the watch and transmitter around
and I get a pulse! Finally – I’m
breathing, I’m alive!
Then, I notice our
heart rates are the same…. I’ve heard that if you’re too close to another monitor,
it will pick up the other person’s info.
She runs to the bathroom and… BEEEEPPP
I’m dead again. No pulse, no
heart rate.
So I take it off and
stomp on it.
Not really. I just cry.
I walk home after our pitiful work out and cry all the way home.
The next morning I
open the new shiny pink watch and strap that transmitter on and it works like a
champ! Turns out, I burn 110 calories an
hour at work while sitting, standing up, going to the bathroom and getting the
mail. Getting the mail in 109 degrees
does raise my heart rate and burns 15 calories!
Sweet!
So my friend who so
sweetly ordered my white watch and monitor is back from her 5 week vacation….
Day one of using my new watch!
Now to figure out
how to return the original POS transmitter….
18 weeks till Hawaii.
Lbs lost: 0Lbs gained since I planned on working out and made a chart of how much I'm going to work-out: 7
