Faery Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 This is probably a really lame woot but I'm really proud So I've had a fitbit for what, four days now? During those 4 days, I've tracked my food daily (with the fitbit app) and gotten to 15,000 steps. That probably doesn't seem like such a big deal, but today I had a donut and coffee. Normally when I do something like that, I get all sad and think "well today is out the window" and then go eat a few villages worth of food. But when I put it in the tracker, I realized that it was actually slightly less than what I would normally have for breakfast and lunch (I am terrible about making either; today I didn't take breakfast or lunch so all I had was the infinitely less healthy/satisfying donut and coffee). SO it really helped me avoid freaking out and eating tons of crap because "I had already messed up". Of course, I don't plan on having donuts every morning. And with the steps, I'm one of those people that take on WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much at once. In the past, I would legitimately try to do a whole bunch of workout videos (and fail), or aim to do 1000 jumping jack, 500 pushups, and 500 squats (and succeed, then wake up with so much pain I thought I needed to go to the hospital). With this, I had set my goal to 10,000 but was only 2-3000 away from 15,000 when I took it off, so raised the limit and did a little bit extra walking. The step goal thing is fairly easy, it gives me something to work towards, feel good when I hit it, and then I can say "Okay, I've met my goal, so I can stop now". And also as far as the challenge is going, I keep having to stop myself from trying to fit in all this extra stuff because I know I'll burn out. It's really helping me pace myself and get over the "all or nothing" mentality so far. I don't feel overwhelmed like how I normally do. So yeah! All is good on the front, so on so forth 1 Quote Link to comment
Guzzi Posted January 10, 2017 Report Share Posted January 10, 2017 That's fantastic! I found my Fitbit to be really useful as well and I enjoyed tracking my food too. I felt in control when I had all that data about my body. Keep up the good work, and no, it's not lame in the slightest. Quote Make Life Rue The Day Turning back the clock Recipe book 14 Life is far too short to take seriously Link to comment
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