Anyhow, I've started to realize that my Gowear Fit armband (Bodybugg) has done the same thing for me when it comes to weight loss. In the 3 weeks I was counting calories but didn't have it yet, I was stressed about food and exercise ALL THE TIME. I wasn't sure if what I was doing was right, I was annoyed that I had to put myself through eating 1,500 calories a day when I had a new city to explore, etc. I hated "going to the gym" and had to drag myself there.
Almost as soon as I got the armband, though, my perception of calorie-counting changed completely. It's like a burden was taken off my shoulders. It's not just my responsibility anymore, the armband is in on this, too.
It tells me how much I can eat, so I eat that much. No guessing, no stressing. And on days when I eat more than I should, I'm still in control, because I can see exactly the effect it's going to have on my weight loss in real-time. Like yesterday, where I knew I was only going to have 200 calories left for dinner. Pre-armband I would have sadly eaten my bowl of low cal soup and dwelled on my bad decisions all night. Instead, I thought to myself, well, I'll have that yummy cheesy baked potato dinner for 450 calories, which will put me at a -750 deficit instead of -1000, and I won't lose quite as much this week, but I'm okay with that. But then I thought, you know what, why don't I just walk down to the grocery store to buy the potatoes? That'll burn 300 calories, and I'll get both the dinner I want AND my deficit target! Woooo! So I did, and it was fun, and I was very happy all evening. It really feels like a lot of the "responsibility" of losing weight has been taken out of my head and put on my left arm.
If I hit my target for the day, then I'm happy for myself, but mostly I credit the armband. And if I don't hit it, I don't beat myself up about it either, cause I know the armband doesn't mind... and together we'll find a way to work through it. Haha, is anyone else starting to see their armband this way, or am I the only one?
