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    What have you bought / been given to help you lose weight and shape up?

    Posts: 257 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    Just wondering what other people have invested in, and what was best value! I took a tally just now and found,
    Pedometer £10
    Tala Food measure £6.95
    New digital scale for me £10
    Stationary folding bike £50
    Bike computer for my road bike £17
    Bike waterbottle £5
    New sneakers £34

    The future may bring more "stuff" as I get fitter - I may get up the nerve to join a gym again, for example. So far so good, I'm 29 pounds down for that investment and feeling better....I've probably spent the same as I would have done on too much food and wine in the same 3 months in the past, I'm embarrassed to say. What about you?

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    • Posts: 1,196 Member
      Jump Rope....game changer.
    • Posts: 15,267 Member
      Food scale digital with tare button...use it all the time
      Husband and son built me a squat rack, bought me a couple of bars and plates.
      Jawbone fitness tracker (love it)
      apps like MFP, map my fitness, c25k
      new runners and workout gear...

      recently bought a weighted jump rope...looking forward to being able to use it this spring/summer.
    • Posts: 1,070 Member
      Fitbit
      Exercise videos

      My mother in law won a fitness basket at an event and my husband looked at it and told her she'd never use it, so she gave it to me for Christmas. It had the Fitbit, a walk away the pounds dvd, exercise mat, yoga brick,yoga towel in it; I was ecstatic.
    • Posts: 1,057 Member
      My food scale is the best $15 I've ever spent. It's crucial to my weight loss.
      Gym membership
      Actual running shoes
      Headphones
    • Posts: 1,679 Member
      Like @rbfdac and @SezxyStef , digital food scale with tare button is the best weight control tool I have ever bought.
    • Posts: 408 Member
      Digital food scale, the rest is incidental.
    • Posts: 25,926 Member
      I already had what I needed (scales, bicycles and bicycle equipment, running and gym gear, a small gym in our basement, etc. etc.) ... and used it now and then. The key was using it all more consistently.

      But we did buy a new food scale because my husband wanted the old one in his workshop and the new one looks nicer in the kitchen. :)


    • Posts: 1,094 Member
      Digital Food Scale changed my life.
    • Posts: 851 Member
      I think my most important purchase has been my Fitbit, but I've also bought a great pocket food scale for eating away from home (already had a counter top one for baking), a good pair of running shoes, an elliptical from Craigslist for when the weather is bad, and a new wardrobe (wearing new clothes 2 sizes smaller is motivation to keep going every time I look in the mirror).
    • Posts: 8,423 Member
      I haven't bought much.
      Shoes, sports bras, pedometer, yoga mat
      I had some stuff already like a food scale and body weight scale.

      Free resources that have been helpful:
      My Fitness Pal
      Free workout videos on You Tube
    • Posts: 31 Member
      Elliptical machine.
      Fitbit zip.

    • Posts: 2,187 Member
      Fitbit Flex
      Digital Food Scale
      Cheap, foldable exercise bike (I love binge watching shows multiple times a week... this helps me stay active during!)
    • Posts: 98 Member
      Digital food scale. For fitness I purchased a Polar heart rate monitor, elliptical machine, a wide range of free weights, and most recently a Fitness Blender program.
    • Posts: 5,245 Member
      Food scale
      Fitbit
      Yoga video (no classes available in my area)
      Exercise clothes. I find that wearing actual exercise clothes instead of just shorts and a t-shirt makes me feel more serious about my workouts. And now I love to wear them because they are really the only clothes I have that fit me right now.
    • Posts: 16,011 Member
      Digital food scale and a Fitbit.

      I was already buying a new pair of sneakers and a new sports bra every year, but I guess those would count too!
    • Posts: 1,200 Member
      Elliptical - used $300
      Barbell plates $70 (10lbs, 25lbs, 35lbs)
      You Are Your Own Gym Book - used 50 cents
      Runners that are meant for running not just skater shoes $70
      I already had a food scale, but now I actually use it.
    • Posts: 216 Member
      Food scale. I was so lost on portion size before it. My weight lifting set ( plates, bench, bar, etc). Just recently an elliptical.
    • Posts: 308 Member
      Gym membership which I have yet to take advantage of :neutral:
    • Posts: 2,806 Member
      As others have said, my digital food scale is key.
      The free pedometer from work has been a huge motivator to move more.
      I needed new sneakers anyway, but they have made walking far more comfortable.
    • Posts: 28,055 Member
      Digital food scale - present Christmas 2014
      Fitbit - present Christmas 2015
      Asics gel sneakers
      Nice workout clothes as an incentive
      Cheaper workout clothes as needed due to others getting too big :D
    • Posts: 16,011 Member
      kshama2001 wrote: »
      Cheaper workout clothes as needed due to others getting too big :D

      Woohoo!!
    • Posts: 1,073 Member
      Fitbit-was totally worth every penny for me
      Digital food scale. I use it everyday
    • Posts: 13 Member
      fitbit - if i dont have 10k steps by the end of the day, i go for a walk to get those steps in.
      tops membership
      digital food scale
    • Posts: 853 Member
      Food scale, most used item in the kitchen now.

      Gym membership

      Proper footwear. Workout wear.

      Oh yea, whole new wardrobe cause nothing we used to own fits anymore!
    • Posts: 1,642 Member
      I've used a food scale for many years so I didn't buy that but use it for every meal and measuring spoons/cups as well.

      I invested in a treadmill and use it every other day faithfully.

      Things I gave up:

      Fast food
      sweets
      most processed foods but not all (love canned soups, canned veggies, popcorn, chips still)
      overeating! Now that I weigh and measure on a daily basis I know how much I'm eating. It's easy to "think" you are eating the right portion sizes until you weigh/measure it and find out differently.
    • Posts: 38 Member
      Fitbit charge hr
      Food scale
      Body scale
      Treadmill
      Running shoes (x3)
      Work out clothes (x10000000 my new shopping go to item)
    • Posts: 207 Member
      Digital food scale
      Body weight scale
      Running shoes
      Decent pants to run/workout in
      Containers to use for meal prep

      Future things:
      More workout clothing
      Garmin Forerunner 225
      Better earbuds that won't fall out of my ears haha
    • Posts: 1,706 Member
      Let's see...
      • I have 2 food scales, but 1 was a Christmas gift
      • a motorized treadmill, it's 8 years old, but I still use it regularly (well, it sat unused for a good 5 years while I had kids)
      • sports bras, shorts, running pants, socks, sneakers (sneakers I replace every 500 miles so those are purchased more often than workout clothes)
      • YMCA gym membership
      • 2 activity trackers (the first was a Jawbone, now I'm wearing a Fitbit Charge HR)
      • race entry fees - I run 2 races a year, a Shamrock 8K and a 5K race in the fall
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