It feels strange, nay even a little astonishing, in our connected by a tangled web of internet and social media virtual world to find out about something new and interesting in an old-fashioned conversational way. And it was in a conversational fashion that I found out about a health and fitness app called Do One Thing Today (dott).
I made my serendipitous discovery of the app at my Pilates class a few months ago. Trish Kernan a fellow attendee at said class mentioned that she was in the process of developing an app and as what she was working on sounded intriguing I met up with her just before Christmas to find out more about the Do One Thing Today app which she put together with a friend Felicity Lyons.
Trish has a scientific background so she had the necessary analytical skills to develop the app and Felicity who is a clinical and academic dietician with a special interest in obesity and weight control wrote the content for the app. The idea behind the app, which Trish says is akin to having a dietician in your back pocket, is to encourage and motivate people to achieve optimum health by using simple actions and strategies to improve their lifestyles.
The dott app delivers to your phone every Sunday, for the whole of 2013, seven simple things to do – one per day – for the following week. So at the end of the year you will end up with three hundred and sixty-five actions or strategies. They made a conscious decision to deliver the actions weekly, in bite size chunks, and not all at once which might have been totally overwhelming. It’s up to you to decide whether to work your way through all the actions or to take a more relaxed attitude and just do a few of them each week. They say on the dott website that ‘dott will improve your diet. dott will help you move more. dott may even change the way you think.’
As I am forever seeking the holy grail of healthy living and because it is the season when I cobble together my ‘to-do’ list for the coming year and I knew many weeks ago that trying to eat in a healthier fashion would be on that list I downloaded the app which costs $1.79 from the Apple store (here’s a link to the app). The description of the app included a list of what’s to come, the item I am most looking forward to reading is ‘Why coffee is now thought to be a good thing.’ I may not get through all the actions but as I firmly believe that many minor changes often have an impact greater than the sum of their parts I will try to do as many as I can.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Note: photo credit Trish Kernan.
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This looks interesting – will go take a look 🙂
I hope you like it. 😉
i’m even an older-fashioned than you, don’t have an iphone 🙂 but i like the thing about coffee 😉
all the best in 2013!
As a coffee lover – I like the thing about coffee too. And all the best to you too for 2013. 😉
One thing I don’t do is Apps. I don’t use a mobile phone unless I am actually making a phone call…old fashioned I know, but I can live very well without it.
Oh that might just be very wise – I use my phone for so many things and some times it feels like there is no escape from it.
Nice post! Very informative. I’ll take a look. Thank you! 🙂
Are you telling me that there was a time when someone said that coffee was not good thing for us? I couldn’t function as a human being without coffee! 😉
Snap – I couldn’t function as a human without my daily dose of coffee. I occasionally do a detox and giving up say alcohol or red meat is easy but as soon as I give up coffee I start thinking and dreaming about the day when the detox will finish and I can once again enjoy a decent cup of coffee. Sadly there are many who say it’s bad for us so I always enjoy hearing a counter argument. 😉
Many thanks for writing about the dott app. Wishing you and your followers a happy and healthy new year. Trish and Felice at the dott app
Thanks Trish for your comment and a very happy and healthy New Year to you too.
Any app that spreads the message that coffee is good for you is worth having. Thanks for sharing this. Great idea.
I couldn’t agree more anything that sends out a message that coffee is a good thing is ace in my book. Now I cannot believe it’s nearly midday and I have yet to have a coffee so off I fly to remedy that.
I’m behind the times with some of the others…my phone doesn’t have apps. I have to say that anything that encourages us to live a healthier life sounds good.
Thanks for your comment Karen. I agree anything that helps or encourages us to lead healthier lives has to be a good thing. Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2013.
Thanks for your comment Karen. I agree anything that helps or encourages us to lead healthier lives has to be a good thing. Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2013.
Thank you so much for your nice wish.
My very best wishes to you for a super New Year.
Thank you so very much.
I wish they had the app for an iPad….
Hi there I don’t have an iPad so I downloaded it to my phone. BUT I have just checked in iTunes app preview and it says about the dott app;
‘Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.’
So it seems it is available for iPads.