Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Was really looking forward to this until I read the Washington Post review. Which you should read before buying, because it eviscerates this device. BUT... I had already ordered it; it was too late to stop the shipment, and so, it came and I tried it. I am an overweight woman who works as an adjunct professor. Currently I am working from home doing classes on zoom. I have been using this time (where I don’t have to drive to a bunch of different colleges) to work on exercise. Since August, I have gone from completely sedentary, to running 3 miles a day. I got my halo in the mail, and I put it on, and I set it up, and I got up in the morning and ran my 3 miles. It gave me nine points for my 3 mile run. Even if ran my 3 miles seven days a week, I would never get to the 150 points it says I need. And currently I only run five days a week. BUT AND EVEN WORSE After I ran and showered and all that kind of stuff, I sat down to do my day of zoom teaching. In between zoom teaching I ran up and down the stairs to let the dog out took the dog for a walk went to pick up the mail but basically spent about seven hours teaching on zoom. By the end of the day my nine points had dropped down to three. :( In my current situation, there is nothing else I can do, after I finish teaching, I have a child to take care of I have a husband I have dinner to cook I have things to do. Doing those things did not raise my score above the measly three points. And so, I have never been so unmotivated in my life to continue exercise that it has been very very challenging for me to achieve. This is the most unmotivating thing I have ever encountered. It is an anti-cheerleader. And I can tell you that I was never going to upload photos, either naked or otherwise, because I don’t want to be further shamed by this device. I was really disappointed to get it and to find out that in order to do the fat analysis you had to upload photos of yourself. I was hoping that it somehow measured your fat through the connectivity of your skin, but I guess that’s just sci-fi stuff that hasn’t happened yet. In any case, when someone like me has gone from zero exercise, to participating in 5Ks for the first time in her life, what that person doesn’t need, is a device like this, that tells you that this is a worthless effort. What a person like me doesn’t need is something that punishes you by subtracting points. I can see that the hard-core exercised obsessed would like this, Maybe even teach the band to call them a worthless maggot or something. For me, I need something kinder and gentler. I have decided to just repeatedly sign up for any local 5Ks that are happening as a way to encourage myself to continue training. It’s a much better use of the money as the money goes to charities, and not Amazon. And they don’t make me feel ashamed of my pitiful effort.