maginnis and today our show is the latest in health and fitness technology and here to help us with that topic today is our health and fitness guru oh thank you for having me back my thanks for coming back you know she pops in and out with the latest and greatest of beauty products or you know what's out there and so today it's all about health and fitness technology thank you for coming thank you so let's talk about apple watches what do they do are they hope or not so i live in thy buy fitness watches so when i was  n i phone user i used an apple watch which i have here with me today is apple watch and it's a great product expression way for fitness stuff so it tracks you all day long no matter if you're just walking around if you are sitting if you want to turn on the exercise piece you can yeah you don't it still will track how many calories you're burning the best part about it is that it tells you based on your weight in your age in your sex how many calories you're burning outside of exercising or moving so it will break down what you burn from all of your movement and what you just burn r with your food your calories that you're consuming it's just based off of movement movement only yes movement only you can use another app to then calculate that but for the watch alone is just based off movement and exercise now you said when you were an i phone you use that if people don't have an i phone do they have an option yes there are other options and i am wearing a fit bit i'm not sure if you can even see that i can work with the  i phone or an android device and the fit bit is all about your steps how many steps you're taking a day and it does also track your exercise you can put in what type have that this one is the blaze so this one looks more like a watch their score yeah i really like it i mean it takes away from apples you know notifications for your texting and all of that and it really just focuses on the fitness are they expensive the apple watch is expensive i would say that the fit bit is not extremely expensive depending on which one you select they have different models the higher you go up the more expensive they get but it is something that you use every single day and for people like me i find it motivating and with the fitbit you can join challenges so if you have friends that have that you can do a challenge and so that you can sort of you know you see your friend is done four hundred steps that makes you want to get up and do that the kitchen cannibal yes it does and if you're looking to maintain a healthy lifestyle or lose weight investing the money in one of these is a good way to go absolutely and then once you pay for like the fitbit there's no monthly fee or anything like that right i think like with the epiphone once by the apple phone you have to pay for the monitoring no you don't want you have the watch and you have the apple phone it just it just works no monthly fee and do you ever find that there's any glitches with it does it not really always record your movement or does it notify you well i deliberately just test at work with friends so at one point a few of us both had apple watches and fit bits we went through a transition at work and we're we tested wearing them on each arm and it seemed like the apple watch would give you more steps than the fit do you think it was more accurate or just more generous yeah i think it's all about the way you're moving i think they track a little differently but it was so close it was so close it wasn't a really big gap but i was but there was a difference do you prefer one over the other you use them both now  i you know i love my apple watch so but i do like that the fitbit has the challenges so that you can be motivated by people you know so there's all of that here the weekend warrior challenge the work week challenge and so that really you go on your phone and you can see where people are and it makes you want to go so i really like the community with the fit because if you're competitive you start to get anxious when you see somebody is beating you yeth so you pick up so it's so you find out on your phone  technology not my actually all meeting up and walking together and running together exactly art it is can't do that so you can do it this way though yes pretty neat pretty neat carissa scales scales that talk to you and sing to your phone and scream at you that you ate too many don't own your land so why do they have those now yes so tell us about them so the most popular on the scale sort of like congrats you know you get that in your app and in your fit bit settings automatically adjust so if you lost ten pounds your fit is already knows so you don't have to go in absolutely what's motivating it is it is so what i opted for was different scales to hold this up yeah this one is also a smart scale with a spring you could talk ok so this is the same idea as the fitbit scale but it works with a different application that you can put on any device it doesn't matter what type of activity tracker you have as well so what i like about this scale is that when you get on the scale in ways you it it remembers who you are so if you share the scale with someone else in your household it remembers who you are how i don't know hard because it goes by like your average weight so if that person is usually one way and you're someone else in your another way what if you're close to what if you know you're your daughter say your grown daughter your teenage scale and if it's not sure it'll show you both names and you lift up your foot so it's a lexus and then after a while you don't need to do that it knows it's you and then when you're done weighing in you see your number on the screen on the scale people are interested in your b m i and things like that it gives you everything too much information but for me i just wanted it to sync with my phone and it also syncs with other apps that are not related to the scale  like what weight watchers so i use when watchers to track my food in for weight loss yeah and it will automatically when i get on here it will send that number to the weight watchers app as well so i don't go in there into the weight it already know you don't have to go back to a meeting place and wait in no this just since it's straight from the scale to the application and that's if you're doing like weight watchers online or just following the program right when you're online oh wow food tracking apps and weight course apps who's in those so i use weight watchers that's my main app because i follow the weight watchers program so you do track your food in the a and it gives you points so i really like that because i am a part of the weight watchers program but there are a lot of people who don't want to follow counting points they just want to count calories and so there are a lot of apps out there a lot of them are free or you can get them for free and then upgrade them for a certain amount so the most popular one is my fitness pal usually gets it on your phone but i know it came on my phone it's just there yes and it's a great app and this every food you can think of is in there has all the calories there's add ons that you can add into my fitness pal it's overwhelming for me but it is a great application  there's another one called lose it same idea like my fitness pal it just looks different so the majority these apps all work the same way have all the foods in the database they just look different so now you spend your day going to the app on your phone and putting in every single thing you drink yes do you find that overwhelming in time consuming i mean it's yeah it's hard to it's hard for people to get up and get ready and go to work and then they're busy at work and  e take the time then to constantly remember have i have had a cup of coffee i had you know yeah i mean while you're trying to hurry up and get on the phone or get to a meeting if you forget or you don't and it's that's hard it is hard to do so what you learn to do is to sort of prearrange what you're going to eat so and you sort of get in the habit of eating almost sorry game of things so if you know if i know in the morning i'm going to have my cup of tea i'm going to have my usual breakfast i just plug bad in before the morning you can do it the day before you could do it the day before comp yes you can and if you forgot something let's say like i remember in the morning oh my god last night i have above i could go back to the file the day before and a the same way as the fitbit you get rewards so if you for example weight watchers if you track every single day for a week you'll get a little world warrant that says you've tracked for five seven days you know  yes things like that is what a lot of people online make challenges on instagram to get all of their little blue bubbles marked in weight watchers and so people will track every single day because they want to have their full calendar  put things and then said oh my god i can't believe how many calories that is or whatever and you don't eat it yes absolutely so you check first i try i try but i do find that if i i have a much better result at the end of the week when i don't track i don't lose as much and used trick yourself into eating things that i know it's not that bad but when you're constantly tracking your like all my goodness i'm not eating that and you really do put down the food when you see how many points or how many calories it is so like to put their lives say for breakfast i like today i had a yogurt i had a muffet chocolate muffin and i had a banana right  would type that in i just scan that and it automatically come up or how it would come up and say you know like how many calories how many points it will say the name of the product shows you everything and so you're allowed a certain amount of points per day on certain programs if you're a certain weight yes and that's how you know how much you're supposed to use every day exactly and like the other apps that is pal those are strictly calories but it will tell you how many calories you should meet a day based on your weight age ok exercise and workout videos through you tube because they're all over the place are they healthy older people use them i know some people who use them i know some people who don't believe in them or do you think they're better than like actually going into the gym and a trainer or if people really can't afford a gym or trainer is it something that makes sense and works i think it's based on your personality yeah i think the videos are just as good as going to the gym as long as you work just as hard as you would if you were had yes a plan to right you can't sit on the floor with the don't want it really doesn't have the same right  for me i can use the videos and i like to use them to supplement going to the gym so right way i make it if i'm traveling i will use the videos on youtube and pop sugar they have great videos but for every day to weight training to running to i like to use videos from you tube because i'm addicted to zuma and i also like toning videos to me those work really well because design you you want i have the low bumblebee and it has a little like rubber band on the back and there's a little light that flashes this can go on any water bottle you want to put this on your water bottle here hold that up so that goes on any water bottle and every hour the light will flash to remind you to drink water wow wow so you have to be  stuff that's pretty neat yeah so it is expensive that was not very expensive but it took forever to get to me the shipping took forever but if it goes on any bottle so that's the thing that i loved about this is that you can put this on anything they also have what's called the hydrate spark which is a true water bottle so it's not a little piece that you put on same idea it flashes every hour or so to remind you to drink water but you have to put your water into that bottle so what happens if you drink like you're really thirsty and then you know it just goes based on this so even in motion right so out of there and in it goes for however long and then eventually i guess it will just die there is no battery replacement oh interesting ok we're going to skip over that topic i was going to talk about but we're going to go to zoc doc  and then we'll go back to patty talking about patient portals so doc that's a website that helps you find a doctor in your area a specialty it will make an appointment for you they even have an app on here and what do you know about that i use that are because i work in manhattan and so i'm not that familiar with where the doctors are located sometimes i'm in a pinch and i just need to see a doctor so  i started using zoc doc years ago for an allergy i had i was at work all this and i started breaking out i needed to find an allergy doctor so i typed in my location you know the vicinity that i was working in that any than allergy doctor it comes up with tons of doctors in a certain area tells you what their specialty is tells you about the practice you can also get some information on you know where they went to school and you can make your appointment directly from the website doesn't you have to put in what kind of insurance you have so that it says whether or not they take your so you have an option to do that you can do that entire process in zoc doc put in your insurance and everything or you can skip it make the appointment and then they call you and say sorry we don't think right so you can do it either way and i have to say i'm going to say almost every time i used it i got a doctor i really really a lot of hospitals and doctors offices especially like groups have patient poor as you can logon to and you can get your best results and stuff like that there are i know my my doctor after i've had blood work done i use it to put in for refills when i need refills of medication i also use it to sit in the doctor a note instead of calling the office and waiting for a call back i put it in writing and i also use it to make appointments prescriptions even messages that constantly will ask me a question about something and everything goes back and forth even when i had to change my point at the one time they sent me a message as if they could change it no there's no more phone calls no and i responded and it actually is very very easy it is so it's do you know if you have on your phone you can access it very simply you know you can keep it usually they have a link that you get sent to originally e mail you keep that on your phone and then every time you need to go to eat you go get it  but even if you don't use the app your information is in there surely might as well use it right so there's lots of other things out there we want to just touch on there's mental health apps for you yes there are piano app there's meditation apps where if you  calm down in a minute you go to the app and you can relax and meditate i have two of those apps on my phone see and so there you go and real quick the motive is a fitness ring that works like a fit you know you  about the yes it works like a fit but it's very stylish it doesn't work with androids ok so you can have an android it gets great reviews and i think the thing that people like the most about it is that you can use it while you're swimming and it looks really nice yes if you wear the style i write that i won yesterday oh yeah yeah and is it expensive i think it is a little expensive but if you can wear it swimming and it does everything and it's not a big watch because some absent as more stuff comes out what will do was will compile it all for another show yeah and i will be sure to have came back you want to give some of the names of the top mental health apps for therapy yes i can do that i think the best one is talk space that one is incredible you are chatting with a live person you can send them a message any time you want and they will respond back to you when they come online they are licensed truth there and i think is one of the best