Last year in October I bought myself a FitBit and I instantaneously became OBSESSED! I was tracking and logging everything! Making sure I made around 5,000 steps on weekdays and 10,000 on weekends. [side note hot tip peoples, housework DEFINITELY gets you your fair share of steps for the day] It brought me instant joy when my watch would vibrate and fireworks displayed on the screen once I hit those 10,000 steps! That instant gratification was exhilarating! Every morning I would wake up to see how I slept and how long for. I was in love with this wonderful piece of technology.
But last weekend I made the decision to take off FitBit and note how I was feeling rather than how FitBit was telling me I was feeling. The first few days I felt naked and lost. I had to go out and buy myself an alarm clock to put in my room because a little while ago I made a rule not to bring technology into the bedroom {see my post about the importance of sleep}. But now I wake up to a classical music channel every morning that eases me into my day rather than alarm bells honking at me, or my wrist vibrating telling me its time to get up.
I now wake up taking note of how I feel rather than looking at an app to tell me how I feel. I am really conscious of each exercise and workout that I carry out and think about how I feel after each session, rather then looking at how many calories I have burned each session.
Don’t get me wrong, any tracking device is a wonderful feature to have but for now I am really enjoying taking note of the feeling rather than being told how I am feeling.
🖤CA
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