What was your best purchase?

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  • Bekzness
    Bekzness Posts: 122
    1) Running Shoes
    2) Food Scales
    3) Body Analyser Scale

    Close runners up are my Wii Fit with various leaping around games and my phone with the mobile app... which is currently broke and I'm waiting for a replacement... hence not making the top 3 :P
  • kayleystar
    kayleystar Posts: 51 Member
    1. Food Scale
    2. Home Gym! (Elliptical, Recumbent Bike, Weight Machines)
    3. A Wii. For days I don't feel like using exercise machines, I can do Zumba, or Just Dance, or any of the other workout games. :)
  • samantha1953
    samantha1953 Posts: 156 Member
    HRM.
    Gazelle (great for light cardio for us older people with arthritis).
    Food Scale.
    Bullet Blender.
    Wii (games, Wii Fit Plus, boxing).
    My bicycle once spring returns!
  • getfitdiva
    getfitdiva Posts: 1,148 Member
    >>> My HRM
    >>> My iPod shuffle & iPhone
    >>> My Ninja
  • laneybird
    laneybird Posts: 532 Member
    Gym Membership, Food Scale, HRM, Brita Water Pitcher
  • samantha1953
    samantha1953 Posts: 156 Member
    Divorce Papers!!! YEA!


    That is a great motivator! Good luck in your future!
  • juliesummers
    juliesummers Posts: 738 Member
    After reading this, I now definitely want a HRM and food scale.
    What brand of HRMs do you guys love (and find are most accurate) and where do you get food scales?
  • Nikkiray32
    Nikkiray32 Posts: 123
    My food scale and the " workout trainer" app on my droid.
  • trlyblssd79
    trlyblssd79 Posts: 101 Member
    Definitely would have to say my HRM, my kitchen scale, and my UA bra!
  • 76tech
    76tech Posts: 1,455 Member
    I'll list the things I wouldn't want to live without:

    1. Real workout clothes. Cotton is wonderful, until you sweat. Then it's the enemy.
    2. Running shoes.
    3. Heart rate monitor with GPS.
    4. A running hat. Sounds silly, but this is a really important piece of equipment for me.
    5. BodyGlide

    Food scale is really, really important and should probably be numbered 0.5, but I didn't have to buy one...
  • staceyb2003
    staceyb2003 Posts: 203 Member
    1. Polar FT7 HRM
    2. Fitbook and MFP
    3. Gym membership
    4. New Rules of Lifting 4 Women
    5. Future races, mini marathons, 5ks... it makes me accountable to keep moving.

    After reading this there may be more purchases in my future! :)
  • cartern1
    cartern1 Posts: 270 Member
    1. HRM
    2. Swimming Goggles
    3. Running Shoes
    4. Food Scale
    5. Running Gloves
  • j_flo2020
    j_flo2020 Posts: 19
    Jillian Michaels 30 day shred dvd
  • alyson820
    alyson820 Posts: 448 Member
    A really good pair of sneakers to start running in, and loads of green tea bags.
  • 76tech
    76tech Posts: 1,455 Member
    After reading this, I now definitely want a HRM and food scale.
    What brand of HRMs do you guys love (and find are most accurate) and where do you get food scales?

    Depends on what type of exercise you do. Indoors, you can't go wrong with Polar.
    Outdoors, if you like running, cycling, etc. then Garmin makes great ones with GPS built in.
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    My food scale and my HRM!!!!
  • Curvy1taliana
    Curvy1taliana Posts: 371 Member
    1. Eat Smart bathroom scale
    2. Digital scale with grams and ounces
    3. True Lemon/Lime and the lemonade packets as well
    4. Bobble 32 oz bottle, because my work doesn't provide spring water
    5. Kansas City 4oz Heart Healthy steaks (easy portion control on the go)
    6. Ninja blender/chopper to obliterate ice for smoothies
    7. Jay Robb protein powder
    8. Blue Diamond unsweetened vanilla Almond Milk
    9. So Delicious unsweetened coconut milk
    10. So Delicious sugar-free Coconut frozen desserts (ice cream and frozen bars)
  • kristi_asco
    kristi_asco Posts: 183
    an xbox 360 w/ kinect! motivates me to workout everytime i'm bored at home! and if it's a rainy day or too cold to do any cardio outside, i know i can just turn that on, so i have no excuse! also perfect for my busy schedule since i don't always have time to make it to the gym before they close!
  • jknoell
    jknoell Posts: 254 Member
    My best purchase(s):

    Polar F7 Heart Rate Monitor
    A GOOD pair of running shoes - went to a New Balance store so they could fit the shoes correctly - aaaah-mazing!
    A jogging stroller
  • CatTutt
    CatTutt Posts: 11
    1. Slow cooker
    2. George Foreman Grill
    3. Food scale
    4. Extra sets of measuring cups/spoons
  • whiterice83
    whiterice83 Posts: 54 Member
    My new smartphone (didn't have one before) and getting the app Fooducate. Because I'll scan bar codes in the grocery store and cringe at what it tells me because normally it would've gone in my cart.

    Wii- because now that I'm using it along with my new EA Active NFL Training camp

    Measuring cups. Somehow mine disappeared and getting some again got me on track by portioning cereal in the morning which jumpstarted this fitness adventure for me.
  • Minnie_Moo
    Minnie_Moo Posts: 239 Member
    After reading this, I now definitely want a HRM and food scale.
    What brand of HRMs do you guys love (and find are most accurate) and where do you get food scales?


    Don't know if this will help you any but...........Here is a link that was posted in another thread (that I bookmarked) with a lot of information on HRM's. Also, I would suggest getting one with a chest strap as they are better to calculate an accurate HR.


    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Azdak/view/the-real-facts-about-hrms-and-calories-what-you-need-to-know-before-purchasing-an-hrm-or-using-one-21472


    I purchased a Polar FT40 last year from heartratemonitorsusa dot com to replace my old Polar (which didn't calculate calories burned) and I :heart: the FT40.

    You can search the internet for specials and lowest prices if you are shopping for any HRM on sites like heart rate monitors usa, Amazon, sporting stores, ebay, etc. Also, search for online codes so that you can take advantage of any additional savings :wink:

    As for scales, you can find them in stores like walmart, target and even some food stores.

    I have used a food scale for many years........I started using one when I had joined Weight Watchers ages ago. It will definately open your eyes, well it surely did mine :ohwell: to portion control especially when measuring food with measuring cups and spoons or by eyeball :noway: and you won't believe how much more food you really may be eating by not weighing it. I weigh almost everything I have to eat now.....

    The food scale I have is a Kitrics Digital Nutrition Scale (which I bought on QVC but have seen on amazon and some mail order catalogs too) and it has food codes programmed into it and you can add more food codes for your favorite foods and the scale gives you the nutritional info for the items you are weighing. It has a tare button and you can change between grams and ounces for weighing items.

    You can buy any food scale from a regular digital scale to the much fancier ones. I think the main point is basically the measuring of the portions :wink:
  • SheilaSisco
    SheilaSisco Posts: 722 Member
    My food scale (which I got on Woot for super cheap... yay Woot!)

    and

    Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred (I honestly don't think I'd be anywhere near the 10 inches I am down in my waist without her!)
  • blondeboms
    blondeboms Posts: 73 Member
    1. Food scale
    2. Asics
    3. 30 day shred
    4. MFP even though its free!
  • StevLL
    StevLL Posts: 921 Member
    Our best purchase was this computer so we can use MFP! My best weight loss aide is my wife (hootsmamma) who is doing this with me and inspires me everyday. She has MS and it does not slow her dedication even on bad days. Can't say I have any excuse when she fights so hard everyday. :love: :happy:
  • emmaonamission
    emmaonamission Posts: 117
    Brita water filter, my exercise bike/cross trainer, my workout gear which makes me feel good about working out, a food scale for me to obsessively measure everything, my membership to Slimming World and their magazines, the Wii Fit... there are lots of things that I love to have around, and which make things a lot easier for me :)
  • Cathyvil
    Cathyvil Posts: 230 Member
    My very best was my recumbent bike. If I'm going to watch anything on tv I have no excuse to sit on the sofa when the bike is 6 feet away.
    After that I definitely have to say my food scale as well and then my sodastream machine. I've always been a big water drinker but soda water is so tasty I drink at least two liters a day now.
  • emmaonamission
    emmaonamission Posts: 117
    Our best purchase was this computer so we can use MFP! My best weight loss aide is my wife (hootsmamma) who is doing this with me and inspires me everyday. She has MS and it does not slow her dedication even on bad days. Can't say I have any excuse when she fights so hard everyday. :love: :happy:

    Aw, this is so lovely!
  • Amber82479
    Amber82479 Posts: 629 Member
    1) My Polar HRM
    2) My kitchen scales (I have one at work and one at home)
    3) My Kindle (so I can read while I do my cardio)
  • ViSabbi
    ViSabbi Posts: 120 Member
    It was a gift from my BF but still...

    1) A good winter coat
    2) Snow pants

    Now I can enjoy the outdoors as much as I want! And of course, my Visalus shakes but then I have them for free so again, not a purchase. What will really be a purchase: kinect or wii with just dance and any work out game I decide to buy :) Dance classes are also on the plate in a few weeks :)
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