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Anyone heard of bracelets where you can count your calories, keep track of your exercise, even what you've eaten?


I don't know what's with my sudden interest but I want to make a simplistic one where I can keep watch on how many calories I've eaten.

I think it'll help me keep watch on what I'm doing. I find that sometimes I lose count (often a result of eating too much :S) and that's when I give up for the day.


I want a simple type of bracelet that works and doesn't look out of place because that'd look suspicious. Simple because I don't have tools or anything.

Bracelets for food remind me way too much of those for Eating Disorders.
I'm not sure how you could go around counting calories on bracelets, maybe if you got like different ones in colors representing the food pyramid and every time you ate a serving you took one off?

That actually sounds cool, but I don't know how you could manage it without questions haha.

If you did though, focus on portions not calories. I'm with Crazy Cat on that one.

Weight Watchers has a Point system that is so much easier to count than calories. You get anywhere from 17 to 45 Points to spend on food each day, depending on your age, current weight, gender, and average daily activity level. WW teaches you how to determine how many points your food contains. Weight Watchers also makes Point-counting bracelets, or you can buy or make your own. Here's one source, but there are many others; just Google for Weight Watchers Bracelet. You could also simply buy some charms and some beads and make your own bracelet, so that you can add and remove beads as you lose weight and need to keep track of different numbers of daily Points.

1. Each bracelet has 30 beads. Every fifth one is a different color from those around them, which makes them easier to count and not lose your place. Then there are two more beads of a coordinating third color, right next to one another; that's your start/end point. For instance, let's say most of the beads are white, every fifth bead is blue, and the two odd-colored beads are silver.

2. Every bracelet also has a movable dangling charm. It's small. The website I linked above lets you choose your charm, and they're really cute. The day starts with the charm between those two silver beads.

3. Whenever you eat something, use your Weight Watchers tools to figure out how many Points that food contains. Let's say your breakfast has 7 Points. You move the charm from between the two silver beads, count four white beads, then the fifth bead which is blue, then two more white beads, for a total of seven beads.

That's it. It's discreet, and you can get bracelets that match your clothing so that it's not out of place at all.

I would just go to the store and get a regular beaded bracelet with regularly alternating colors or something like that, or to make one to fit whatever you want. They have kits to make them. I don't think it's worth it to buy them online, if they are just bead bracelets. They do this for pregnancies too... to remind you of appointments and stuff. I think they're kind of trying to sell them overpriced and call them "weightloss" bracelets or "pregnancy" bracelets. I mean, $20? I'd pay about $5

I just made my own. It's got markers for about 1600 calories, and I've got a charm for calories in chunks of 100, exercise in chunks of 15 min (up to 2 hrs) and vegetable servings (up to 10).

What's more, is to keep it looking nice, I want to keep the beads sort of together, so I'm right now feeling very compelled to do 15 more minutes of exercise. ._.

To avoid the questions just transfer the braclet to the other arm.
That's what I did when I bought jelly bracelets to track my water intake.
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