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A Strange Feeling of Liberation

This, like several others in this blog, is not strictly on topic. It's not about eating healthy, as much as it is being healthy.

Several days ago, I was having a lot of trouble synchronizing my wrist device, with the cloud and with the app on my mobile phone. The reason? Probably a decreased bandwidth attributable to everyone staying home and using their home internet. But that's not what I want to talk about.

Disgusted with trying to synchronize my wrist device, I just decided to remove it. My Fitbit Inspire is now in a drawer somewhere. My first reaction, as you can imagine, was the same as someone who has left a cell phone home, or in the words and thoughts of people of my generation somebody who has left their wrist watch at home. There's an immediate feeling of incompleteness, a feeling that you're missing something that you should have with you. A necessity. Something like your wallet. Something like your passport. But after that passed, it was almost liberating. I no longer felt that I needed to constantly check the Fitbit for its reassuring notes and tones and numbers.

Another concern, of course, was would I continue in a health word matter, or would I degenerated into a large pool of late laziness and fat? The answer is, that I've actually lost a couple of pounds. And I think the reason is fairly simple. Data collection is good, even necessary, even absolutely necessary, sometimes. If you're diabetic it is absolutely critical to check and know your glucose numbers. It is necessary for those with hypertension to check their blood pressure daily. It is necessary if you have an infection, or the flu, to check your temperature frequently. And, in much the same manner, I feel that it's necessary, if you're looking for better health, to know how many calories, grams of fat or other nutrients information you're taking in daily. But I'm not sure that we need to be as glued to our fitness devices as we are.

Weather to wear a fitness device or not, is your decision. Yours alone. For me not wearing one works. For me, not wearing one means making my own decisions and being accountable for what I do. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
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