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Wellness Wednesday for July 5, 2023

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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What do people use for sleep tracking? I honestly feel like Fitbit gets worse every product, time to look for alternatives.

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Withings sleep tracker. It's a pad that goes under your mattress. I doubt it's as good as a watch-based one, but I'm 100% guaranteed to use it every night. This means I have much more data to never look at or do anything with. I think it's good at tracking, snark aside.

I use a Level 2 Polysomnography suite, including a SpO2 monitor, flow monitoring, and arousal tracking.

(Well, that's the only thing I've ever used for sleep tracking, and it confirmed my suspicion that I had severe sleep apnea)