ZOE, YUKA, and a Step Counter

My new doctor recommended an app for the smart phone called YUKA which rates various foods (and some cosmetics). It tells you what the ingredients are and for the most part, tells you why it gave that product the rating that it did.

For example, it might say that it is too processed so it got a low rating, or that it has too much sodium added to it but that it's still got some good stuff so it got a medium rating.

Somehow, we discovered Zoe, I cannot remember exactly how that one came about, and it is also a food app you can install on your smart phone. The difference between the two is that Zoe allows you to take a picture of a completed meal on your plate, it analyzes the foods on your plate and gives the whole meal a rating based on what it perceived the ingredients to be. It is pretty cool really, and surprising how it recognizes certain dishes.

I am impressed with both those apps and it has been eye-opening in as far as being made aware of what foods are considered very unhealthy.

I read the labels but still this takes it much further.

It was a long while back but I used to wear a step counter and strive for the elusive 10 grand. Now they tell me that at my age the goal should be more like half of that, about 5 grand. So I thought I'd put that little bracelet back on and see where I am. I cannot find that thingie.

And the price of those thingies has gone up well beyond anything I would care to pay for such a device. For crying out loud they use to sell them at the Dollar Store. But then, the dollar store is no longer a store that sells things for a dollar only.

I guess it comes down to me being so cheap.

I saw a post on Facebook the other day that really hit on point. It said something close to:

how is it that 72 degrees in the summertime a/c feels so very different than 72 degrees in the wintertime heater running?

That is so true. I am looking at the furnace thermometer in my house and it says it is 71 degrees. I have a long sleeved pullover shirt on with a tank top on top of that (layers) and I am COLD ! I have wooly socks on. I have long thick-ish pants on. I am cold.

So not okay.

I am turning the furnace temp up and will have to pay stupid money to keep myself from shivering.

Dang.

So, maybe moving around will get that circulation increased and warm me up? Maybe?

TTFN - going to run around in circles for no good reason now.