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Life After Diets
Should I Break Up With My Fitbit?
It might be time to move on
We need to talk. You haven’t done anything wrong, but I want to be honest with you about how I feel. You’ve given me so much, but I’m worried that I was too clingy and dependent on you for a long time.
Still, Fitbit, we’ve been through a lot together — vacations, new apartments, a marathon — and I think we owe it to each other to talk this out.
My current Fitbit came into my life on a warm spring day in 2018, an impulsive splurge from the Memorial Day Weekend sales I tried halfheartedly to resist. It was a simple Alta HR, an unobtrusive model with a small face and a slim, black band that looked good on and blended into both professional and leisure outfits quite nicely.
“I’ll use the heart rate monitor for my Orangetheory classes,” I argued to myself, hovering my mouse over the checkout button. I’d been resisting buying one of their branded wearables for a while. This seemed like a great alternative, and one I’d get far more use out of outside of class.
“And my office is starting their annual step challenge,” I thought. “This will be more accurate than using my phone.”
This wasn’t my first experience with fitness trackers in general or Fitbit in particular. I…
