Gadget schmadget a.k.a Hello Fatty part deux

February 24, 2015 Babe 0 Comments

Smartphone, check. Tablet (ok, a starter one…for a 12 year old), check. Garmin fitness thingamajig, check.

It’s a slippery slope. I am in front of two laptops as we speak. How do we, a modest household of two, account for three laptops, two smartphones, one tablet, one vivofit and one defunct digital camera neither of us want to make a decision on?

It’s overdone, we’ve all had our Ted moment of how technology is taking over our lives- depriving us from quality time outdoors with friends, lovers and our dogs. Not that people haven’t already been spending the better part of their lives hunched over typewriters, word processors, PCs (somebody should do a remake of Nine to Five). And that the X-Box, Command and Conquer and Starcraft predates the i-Phone.

So I will stop there and just deal with the 21st Century. Welcome the watch that can tell time and how much time my derriere spends on the chair. Why bother? I work out, I’ve lost the weight and cut down on a lifelong addiction to three sugars in my tea. And the thing is so not an accessory I can work with-it’s rubbery and plastic and just looks like something a teenage boy would wear.

Initially it’s the sleep charting business I bought into. I’m not a great sleeper so I took a rather morbid interest in noting the spikes of restlessness in the sleep chart and start the day logging the sad/frustrated face when  asked how I felt waking up. But then I got into (slope getting very slippery here) the calorie counting stuff. I swore that I would never calorie count ever again-too complicated and depressing. But now, I log in all my meals and check against how many steps I take in a day- at 1230 or so calories a day to lose 3 kg in 3 months, myfitnesspal? My fitness fiend more like! I can’t believe an innocent bar of chocolate ( this is why I don’t calorie count in the first place!) can make up 25% of my day.

But it’s helping I have/hate to admit. Technology that has been robbing us blind of our time with humans and such has its uses. I get up more to walk around in the Office (that’s one tenth of a small chocolate bar), on non-gym days we stroll in our little neighbourhood (holding hands and stargazing). I’m facing some hard truths about snacking and actually chose to drink two glasses of water today than a coffee with sugar and cream.

So, yeah. I’ve got to stop here as have to get up and make up my 10,000 steps…ok, after I check out who wore what at the Oscars.