Daniel J Isom

About a month ago, during Prime Day, there were a lot of sales on various activity trackers. I had some birthday money still sitting in my Amazon account, so I used that towards getting the budget friendly Fitbit Flex 2 . It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that some of the more expensive models have, but I wanted to see if it's something I would actually use before spending more on one. Now that I've had it for a month, I thought I'd give my thoughts on it. This purchase was inspired by my attempt to get back on track . Since I've gotten serious about getting in better shape and trying to lose some weight, I'm down 8 pounds in approximately two months. I've lost 6 of the 8 pounds in the last month. I attribute a lot of that to the Fitbit. The reason for that is because of the app that tracks a bunch of things and the ability to set reminders. I have it set so if I haven't taken 250 steps in an hour, from the hours of 6am to 3pm, the band wi

The summer is here and I feel like I'm grinding a bit to stay on top of these things. I don't know if it's the heat or just how busy we've been but I'm tired. I'm still plugging along though. 1) Bake more bread from scratch I almost didn't get anything done for July because we've been busy and it's been so hot that I didn't want to use the oven much. But I had some time this past weekend to get something made. I wasn't sure what to do, so I made the recipe for four one pound loaves that I've been doing. Once the dough has risen, broken it down into four pieces and shaped them with the intention of working on my scoring. From the top going clockwise, there is a pound symbol, three slashes, scallop, and a plus sign. I wasn't happy with the pound symbol but the other three came out pretty good. I was most satisfied with the scallop design. These smaller loaves baked a lot better than some of the larger loaves I've done in th