{10.3} Should You Track and Test Your Health and Wellbeing in 2024?

Raising Healthy Mothers

Almost 10 years ago I bought my first Fitbit. I bought it because I wanted to track whether I was doing 10k steps a day. It worked really well - I would often find myself heading out for an extra walk at lunchtime.

But I found all the options for tracking overwhelming, and I especially found the sleep information disturbing. I would sometimes wake up feeling like I'd had an amazing night's sleep, check my Fitbit, only to be told I'd had only actually had 30 minutes of restful sleep.

10 years on and the options for tracking is phenomenal. Even without buying any fancy equipment - your phone alone can tell you a lot about how you are supposed to be doing with your health. And there's more and more gamification in completing your health data, making it even more compulsive.

But is all this information a good thing? Does it actually help? Is all this tracking making us healthier? Is it empowering to know so much about yourself...or do you end up feeling enslaved?

In this episode I discuss this very question - and realise that it’s really not black and white at all! I talk about…

• The Zoe programme and what I think about it

• How tracking can lead to obsession and more anxiety around our health

• The problem with tracking only one aspect of your health

• What I tell my clients not to track

• How our children can inspire us to be instinctive in how we treat our bodies

• What you could track to gain clues into your wellbeing

I am opening up space for two 1:1 clients on a 3 month programme from February. Over the 3 months we’ll take a deep dive into your health challenges and make a plan together to get you out the other side with oodles of energy. To talk through whether it’s right for you, book in for a chat here.

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