Bandwidth

The thing about fitness bands is they are sneaky in that they begin controlling your life and you don't even realize it.
I had begun a sort of formal relationship with an earlier version of MI band and though I didn't think of myself as one of those people who cared much about such fads I slowly found myself getting sucked into the sensation and found myself strapping it on the first thing on waking up each morning.

With the ease of vibration upon notifications came the comfort of knowing your heartbeats, calories burnt and step counted and slowly, unknowingly it escalated to a point when I would begin freaking out on finding myself running behind on the everyday step count I'd set which was 10k.

I'd absolutely disregarded my slowly growing fanaticism at always staring at my wrist and figuring out how many steps I'd taken during workouts and in fact usually increased my cardio just to maintain my daily step count.

What began as a somewhat reluctant formality of having a fitness band slowly turned into an obsession to the point I undertook long excursions and hikes and what not to double or even triple the step count just to feel better, a some sort of smugness I could justify to myself at that time and delighted myself in seeing the daily graph of steps taken, stupidly freaking out on days there was a dip.

One day I mistakenly deleted the app and on reinstalling it realized I'd forgotten the password and though it didn't deter me from wearing it everyday I soon identified my growing fixation with the band that I barely ever used to even know the time and one day when I went out for a run in the evening on realising my daily step count was way behind did I realize that I had a problem and stopped charging it that day onwards.

Having said that I did enjoy wearing it and maybe some day when I know I'm mature enough to know it as a fitness band I'd definitely love to try it on again.