ARE YOU A SLAVE TO YOUR
Fitness band? By Julie Cox
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aving been in the fitness industry for 17 years it is sad to see the way it’s headed. I understand that trends take over, change is often good, and new ways are developed, but the recent craze with the Fitbit really bugs me. I love that people are wanting to be healthier, watch their food intake, walk more and challenge themselves but that’s about where the love stops for me. The fitness band craze has become an unhealthy numbers game.
The time spent learning how to use the fitness band, keeping them updated and just looking at them takes focus away from us being in tune with our bodies. Instead of eating a certain food and feeling its reaction to our body and system, we quickly update our band to see what it has to say about it! Wouldn’t our time be better spent learning a new exercise or something valuable about nutrition? Many people seem to have lost their way. They focus on how many calories they have eaten or burnt, how many steps they have taken and constantly refer to a technology device to tell us what our bodies should be doing. Our bodies are the most incredible things we often take for granted, they know what is good for us and what isn’t. They can even recover and repair on their own when we are sick or have trained too hard. Our bodies’ ability to tell us what’s wrong is phenomenal. We have just lost the communication with it. Ask yourself this – Your Fitbit tells you, you will lose the weight but you don’t. Who do you blame? Can you blame it instead of yourself? Sometimes going back to basics is the key. Go back to the old-school ways of eating. Eat foods for a purpose. 102 Peninsula PeninsulaKids Kids––Spring Spring2017 2017