OK. This is purely a rant based on a shallow, n=1 observation.

I lost my fitbit down the toilet in December and chose not to replace it.

Since then, I’ve been maintaining my active habits (walking to work, training for a fun run) without the motivational air cover provided by the device.

Since then, I’ve been eating slightly healthier, primarly reducing meat consumption in favour of vegetables, and also increasing the depth and number of fasting days.

As a consequence, I’ve been losing more weight.

The interesting thing is that the only quantified self metric I’ve been looking at has been my weight.

It’s all a bit zero-sum, but I feel that by no longer monitoring my activity, I’m now focusing more on what matters – weight.

This isn’t to poo poo the tracker. I’m confident that it supported the development of activity habit. It’s just that now I’ve covered that, I need to focus on more salient measures.

It makes me think there’s change management a process that’s required to get healthy:

Firstly, get active using whatever motivational means necessary -trackers, fun runs etc.

Second, perhaps simultaneously, concentrate on diet… fasting, nutrition etc.

For further discussion, no doubt…