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Getting a puppy, as captured by my fitbit: http://i.imgur.com/j9FTleb.png http://i.imgur.com/j9FTleb.png I love my Charge HR for this sort of stuff. It gives m

Getting a puppy, as captured by my fitbit: http://i.imgur.com/j9FTleb.png http://i.imgur.com/j9FTleb.png I love my Charge HR for this sort of stuff. It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?" Days where I'm antsy all day tend to be days I have a higher resting heart rate. Days when I have a higher resting heart rate tend to come after a couple nights of less-than-stellar sleep. It's easy to guess that being antsy all day is nervous energy from work, but if it only happens after 4 days of 6.5 hours of sleep... the fix isn't to work on my resting heart rate via meditation, it's to get more sleep. The great thing for me is that I have concrete actions that help fix specific biometric anomalies: going to bed earlier, drinking less/more alcohol/coffee, exercising more/less. I know I should do all of these things all the time, but being able to see the effectiveness of specific actions is really satisfying.

munificent 11y ago
> It's easy to guess that being antsy all day is nervous energy from work, but if it only happens after 4 days of 6.5 hours of sleep... the fix isn't to work on my resting heart rate via meditation, it's to get more sleep. Holy crap. You may have just changed my life.
- nedwin 11y ago
  32 years old, only recently made the connection between poor moods and mental acuity and a series of nights with less than 8 hours sleep. :/
  - bitcointicker 11y ago
    8 hours sleep seems like bliss to me. Even if I actually get to bed giving me enough time to have 8 hours sleep, I usually have trouble drifting off and then when I do, I'll wake a few hours later, and repeat. I find that there is so much stimulation throughout the day, so many things I want to read about, experiment with and work related problems to solve, I really struggle to switch off at the end of the day. I try to console myself with this - http://www.wsj.com/articles/sleep-experts-close-in-on-the-optimal-nights-sleep-1405984970 http://www.wsj.com/articles/sleep-experts-close-in-on-the-op... 7 hours is better than 8 :-)
- sulam 11y ago
  The biggest change in my life from getting a ChargeHR was realizing that, after 5 years of having a child (and then children) in my daily life, I was wayyyy more sleep-deprived than I realized. The newborn phase was obvious -- you're having to get up every couple hours and getting back to having a "full" night's sleep feels really awesome. But it turns out I _never_ got back to a full night's sleep, because having kids means I wake up earlier than I used to and the result is that I was constantly getting about 30 minutes less sleep than I really needed. I made a change to when I go to bed, and after 4 or 5 days of really getting a lot of sleep it was like going from a foggy day to sunshine in my mind. (full disclosure: I now work for Fitbit!)
lectrick 11y ago
Welcome to my sleep-apnea life. The CPAP is only partially effective due to (surprise, surprise) a new allergy to... well, everything airborne, seemingly, including house dust... and even though Allegra does a decent job, sometimes I unconsciously take the thing off in my sleep, and proceed to have a much shittier sleep: http://i.imgur.com/f9oHjqQ.png http://i.imgur.com/f9oHjqQ.png
- trjordan 11y ago
  That's crazy. My restlessness graphs don't look much different than yours -- is the sleep apnea what's waking you up after 5-6 hours?
  - rconti 11y ago
    Seriously. I sleep like a baby and often show 30+ times restless.
  - lectrick 11y ago
    I'm... not sure. Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep (insomnia), although SOME of that can probably be attributed to late-night device usage (I use Flux, but the iPhone won't have "time-based screen yellowing" until the next iOS release.) My girlfriend, who sleeps in the same bed as me, also gets up around 6, and sometimes that wakes me (not most of the time, fortunately).
  - DenisM 11y ago
    If you wake up after 5 or 6 hours well-rested, that's all you needed. If you feel like shit when you awake, and yet can't go back to sleep to catch up on the deficit, then you may have some variety of mood-affective disorder. The excess adrenaline makes and keeps you awake as soon as you rested a little bit in the first 5-6 hours. It also makes you dehydrated, and longer-term it forms a vicious cycle due to accumulated sleep deficit. This condition requires attention of a medical professional, which I am not.
- DenisM 11y ago
  Do you have the latest CPAP machine? The latest generation is a dramatic improvement over the older generations, especially with the exhale relief, this yields less discomfort and more compliance. I can't recommend it enough.
Ao7bei3s 11y ago
Exciting chart! I'm curious: are Nov 14/15 outliers or did you really manage to return to your previous sleeping time suddenly after two weeks? (If so, how?) (Might be too personal to ask?) (I guess if I'd ever get a dog I'd get us both activity trackers so I could correlate the data.)
- trjordan 11y ago
  My wife and I traded off nighttime / early morning duties, and those were nights where I was so zonked she took both. They were glorious. If you're ever thinking about a dog, this period actually only lasts about a month. After that, the dog starts sleeping through the night, so I now have this pattern that's almost perfectly correlated with when I go to bed. The dog means I always wake up between 7 and 8 AM.
flashman 11y ago
> Getting a puppy Yep looks like my 'parenting two kids under 3' sleeping hours. > It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?" My resting heart rate went up 15% when I had a cold last year - starting two days before I felt any symptoms: http://i.imgur.com/X7vEFsC.png http://i.imgur.com/X7vEFsC.png
- junto 11y ago
  Dies the Fitbit track stress levels as a metric, or is it just heart rate?
  - flashman 11y ago
    Just heart rate - I believe it's logged at 5-second intervals during rest, and 1-second intervals during physical activity. I'm trying to get Python Fitbit working to download my HR data but am having API issues: http://python-fitbit.readthedocs.org/ http://python-fitbit.readthedocs.org/
    - zimpenfish 11y ago
      I've got https://github.com/magnific0/FitBit.py https://github.com/magnific0/FitBit.py working (with a minor tweak - the refresh token path is missing a "return", it seems) for downloading my heart rate data. Works great. https://rjp.is/experiments/heartrate/buckets5.html https://rjp.is/experiments/heartrate/buckets5.html https://rjp.is/experiments/heartrate/minsum.html https://rjp.is/experiments/heartrate/minsum.html Drop me a note (contacts in profile) if you want a copy before I get around to github'ing the changes.
- trjordan 11y ago
  Based on parallel experiences, having a puppy is like having a kid, except that the puppy is on dog-years time. They first sleep through the night after a month instead of 7, they start to talk back and push limit at 3 months instead of 2 years, ... and whatever else comes after that, since my dog is only 4.5 months old! It probably diverges at some point. I don't think I have to worry about college applications when my dog is 2.5 years old, but who knows?
k-mcgrady 11y ago
>> "I love my Charge HR for this sort of stuff. It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?"" Intersting. I've noticed a similar thing but with the step counter on my iPhone. My mood heavily influences them. If it's good I'll walk more but when I'm depressed significantly less. It was also useful at tracking my progress out of an illness as when the illness began my steps dropped to practically nothing and the slowly day-by-day increased over a couple of months back to the level they were at before. I've used it for something like this a few times.

munificent 11y ago

> It's easy to guess that being antsy all day is nervous energy from work, but if it only happens after 4 days of 6.5 hours of sleep... the fix isn't to work on my resting heart rate via meditation, it's to get more sleep. Holy crap. You may have just changed my life.

nedwin 11y ago
32 years old, only recently made the connection between poor moods and mental acuity and a series of nights with less than 8 hours sleep. :/
- bitcointicker 11y ago
  8 hours sleep seems like bliss to me. Even if I actually get to bed giving me enough time to have 8 hours sleep, I usually have trouble drifting off and then when I do, I'll wake a few hours later, and repeat. I find that there is so much stimulation throughout the day, so many things I want to read about, experiment with and work related problems to solve, I really struggle to switch off at the end of the day. I try to console myself with this - http://www.wsj.com/articles/sleep-experts-close-in-on-the-optimal-nights-sleep-1405984970 http://www.wsj.com/articles/sleep-experts-close-in-on-the-op... 7 hours is better than 8 :-)
sulam 11y ago
The biggest change in my life from getting a ChargeHR was realizing that, after 5 years of having a child (and then children) in my daily life, I was wayyyy more sleep-deprived than I realized. The newborn phase was obvious -- you're having to get up every couple hours and getting back to having a "full" night's sleep feels really awesome. But it turns out I _never_ got back to a full night's sleep, because having kids means I wake up earlier than I used to and the result is that I was constantly getting about 30 minutes less sleep than I really needed. I made a change to when I go to bed, and after 4 or 5 days of really getting a lot of sleep it was like going from a foggy day to sunshine in my mind. (full disclosure: I now work for Fitbit!)

lectrick 11y ago

Welcome to my sleep-apnea life. The CPAP is only partially effective due to (surprise, surprise) a new allergy to... well, everything airborne, seemingly, including house dust... and even though Allegra does a decent job, sometimes I unconsciously take the thing off in my sleep, and proceed to have a much shittier sleep: http://i.imgur.com/f9oHjqQ.png http://i.imgur.com/f9oHjqQ.png

trjordan 11y ago
That's crazy. My restlessness graphs don't look much different than yours -- is the sleep apnea what's waking you up after 5-6 hours?
- rconti 11y ago
  Seriously. I sleep like a baby and often show 30+ times restless.
- lectrick 11y ago
  I'm... not sure. Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep (insomnia), although SOME of that can probably be attributed to late-night device usage (I use Flux, but the iPhone won't have "time-based screen yellowing" until the next iOS release.) My girlfriend, who sleeps in the same bed as me, also gets up around 6, and sometimes that wakes me (not most of the time, fortunately).
- DenisM 11y ago
  If you wake up after 5 or 6 hours well-rested, that's all you needed. If you feel like shit when you awake, and yet can't go back to sleep to catch up on the deficit, then you may have some variety of mood-affective disorder. The excess adrenaline makes and keeps you awake as soon as you rested a little bit in the first 5-6 hours. It also makes you dehydrated, and longer-term it forms a vicious cycle due to accumulated sleep deficit. This condition requires attention of a medical professional, which I am not.
DenisM 11y ago
Do you have the latest CPAP machine? The latest generation is a dramatic improvement over the older generations, especially with the exhale relief, this yields less discomfort and more compliance. I can't recommend it enough.

Ao7bei3s 11y ago

Exciting chart! I'm curious: are Nov 14/15 outliers or did you really manage to return to your previous sleeping time suddenly after two weeks? (If so, how?) (Might be too personal to ask?) (I guess if I'd ever get a dog I'd get us both activity trackers so I could correlate the data.)

trjordan 11y ago
My wife and I traded off nighttime / early morning duties, and those were nights where I was so zonked she took both. They were glorious. If you're ever thinking about a dog, this period actually only lasts about a month. After that, the dog starts sleeping through the night, so I now have this pattern that's almost perfectly correlated with when I go to bed. The dog means I always wake up between 7 and 8 AM.

flashman 11y ago

> Getting a puppy Yep looks like my 'parenting two kids under 3' sleeping hours. > It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?" My resting heart rate went up 15% when I had a cold last year - starting two days before I felt any symptoms: http://i.imgur.com/X7vEFsC.png http://i.imgur.com/X7vEFsC.png

junto 11y ago
Dies the Fitbit track stress levels as a metric, or is it just heart rate?
- flashman 11y ago
  Just heart rate - I believe it's logged at 5-second intervals during rest, and 1-second intervals during physical activity. I'm trying to get Python Fitbit working to download my HR data but am having API issues: http://python-fitbit.readthedocs.org/ http://python-fitbit.readthedocs.org/
  - zimpenfish 11y ago
    I've got https://github.com/magnific0/FitBit.py https://github.com/magnific0/FitBit.py working (with a minor tweak - the refresh token path is missing a "return", it seems) for downloading my heart rate data. Works great. https://rjp.is/experiments/heartrate/buckets5.html https://rjp.is/experiments/heartrate/buckets5.html https://rjp.is/experiments/heartrate/minsum.html https://rjp.is/experiments/heartrate/minsum.html Drop me a note (contacts in profile) if you want a copy before I get around to github'ing the changes.
trjordan 11y ago
Based on parallel experiences, having a puppy is like having a kid, except that the puppy is on dog-years time. They first sleep through the night after a month instead of 7, they start to talk back and push limit at 3 months instead of 2 years, ... and whatever else comes after that, since my dog is only 4.5 months old! It probably diverges at some point. I don't think I have to worry about college applications when my dog is 2.5 years old, but who knows?

k-mcgrady 11y ago

>> "I love my Charge HR for this sort of stuff. It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?"" Intersting. I've noticed a similar thing but with the step counter on my iPhone. My mood heavily influences them. If it's good I'll walk more but when I'm depressed significantly less. It was also useful at tracking my progress out of an illness as when the illness began my steps dropped to practically nothing and the slowly day-by-day increased over a couple of months back to the level they were at before. I've used it for something like this a few times.