Think Tracking Device Will Help You Lose Weight? Think Again
Bummer. Wearing a tracking device won't really help you to lose weight. Not that I didn't already know that. I clipped a Weight Watchers' Active Link to my bathing suit in the summer and swam my laps, and to my shorts when I went running, all to find out how much food I could eat for all the exercise I was doing. It turned out that I burned a lot of "points," how you count calories for Weight Watchers. But I didn't lose much weight. In fact, some weeks I gained. All to say that exercise only contributes about 15% (according to experts) to weight loss. No matter. I accidentally left the device on my bathing suit when I washed it and though it survived the washing machine, the dryer was another story entirely. I figured I didn't really need it. I already knew how much I could eat if I didn't want to gain, and some weeks I could, and some weeks I couldn't. Apparently that's all been discovered in a new study by researchers at th...