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How To Make Fitness Trackers Work For You, Not Against You
When tracking backfires your health goals
I love logging and tracking my routines via my Fitbit Charge 2 and its app. I use it when I am in that ready mental state to achieve my fitness and health goals. It allows me to stay accountable and also gives me an overview of how I am performing, eliminating the guessing game.
It not only tracks my calories burned and types of activities performed, but it also tracks my food and water intake, my sleep score, heart rate, and even predicts my menstrual cycle.
In fact, just earlier this year, as part of my personal health reset goal, I have been diligently inputting all my data in the Fitbit app. And in just 12 weeks, I am seeing the stark improvement in my health and performance goals. I loved the moment when I hit my 10,000 steps and that little man will appear on my watch with a “hooray” victory sign.
But all that came to a halt when the semi-lockdown happened in April. Everything came to an almost stand-still. I tried to keep up with my activity level for the first week, walking around the house or taking long routes to the grocery store, in the hope to hit the 10,000 steps. But I barely make it to 5000 steps a day.
