Monthly Fitness Update (Feb 2019)

The month has already started to creep up on me as my new role at work continues to consume most of my time these days but I did not want to miss the opportunity to give my monthly update on my fitness and health activities to have them registered on the blockchain. I admittedly held back on this post because I was not seen as much progress as I had expected and was somewhat disappointed at the results. However, to my surprise when I got on the scale this weekend I was able to see some good progress. While it is not the sole metric that I am watching given the many other factors that go into weight as a health metric, it is great way to monitor my efforts. The other way has been how my clothes fit on me which I can say has improved dramatically over the same time. This week, I already have an appointment to get my periodic blood work done to ensure that all seems normal given my dieting and fitness activities. More news on that will come next month.

Despite the pressure of some travel in addition to the workload, I was able to complete all of my goals from a caloric burn perspective. Given the fact that I have been purposely increasing the amount of activity I’m doing on a daily basis, as of today I have increased my goals in relation to the amount of calories I want to burn on a daily basis by 10%. I felt that I needed to do it because it feels that my diet is not doing as well as it has in the past; I honestly think it’s my age. Also, due to some limitations in my travel schedule I have been off my efforts regarding intermittent fasting which has probably also impacted my ability to feel more progress. However, this month I have started it once again and I believe it is the reason why improvement is being seen.

@actifit did its latest update last month as well which proved to be a good one as it allowed me to upload pictures and images for the first time. While I still often forget, I have been relatively consistent in providing images to support some of my activities during the day. The app has also come with some new features which I think are great. Now, there is an alert notification that you can set on a daily basis to remind you to post your activity. I often see many others Steemians forget to post their activity due to an oversight. I had already put a daily reminder on my calendar to not forget as I did a couple of times in the past. I have also enjoyed their new charting system to see daily progress across the time span instead of only having a list that was sometimes inconsistent on a daily basis.

The @actifit developers and community continues to be one of the main foundations of the ecosystem given the improvements and growth they have experienced since starting last year. It has been encouraging to see how they continually contemplate user feedback and improve the features for their users. They have also been actively seeking ways to incentivize activity and growth of the community. For example, they recently started a new radio show on a weekly basis to share experiences and to motivate the community. They are never shy to do good promotions and giveaways given the over 300,000 Steem Power they have been able to accumulate for their project.

In addition, they have not stopped thinking about the future of our ecosystem and their project as they have started their own development to use and create markets for their Smart Media Token (SMT). They will be part of a number of projects that will be seeking to list their token on exchanges as part in it as an effort to bring liquidity into that tokenized market in the coming months. However, in an effort to continue to support the growth of their community members they have also launched a way to convert their tokens into Steem. Through the Dapp users are now able to convert tokens in return for upvotes that will be paid out in Steem after the normal seven day window. These are great measures that they have taken to support the growth of users of any size which is a great way to ensure the distribution of our stakes.

I had not been keeping track of these tokens as my focus has been to remain motivated by my activity as well as the daily upvote I get from participating in my proof of activity. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see that despite falling out of the top 100 tokenholders for AFIT I still had a good amount of tokens when measuring the equivalent in Steem. I still expect this project to continue to develop and grow for the benefit of its community and therefore will remain a proud owner of these tokens as it reaches its goals in the months or years to come. For example, I can envision a moment where I can trade in my tokens for some great gear that I can use to enable my success in my future fitness activities. I am confident that the team in charge of this project has the vision to do the same.

Overall, some great progress achieved so far this year. I hope that this can provide motivation for those users that feel stuck either in growing here on Steem or with your fitness as the combination has provided me with the motivation to remain active and engaged during my daily life! The fact that we are rewarded in more ways than one for our fitness goals is encouraging from a community perspective as well! I look forward to many more joining this great community!

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