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What's in your wellness toolkit?

Hi everyone!
I'm a total lurker but I really get a lot out of reading about other people's experiences and questions, so I thought I'd share something I've been thinking about.

I've been working on a project at work related to wellness, the different aspects that you need to look at to be in good health, and it got me thinking about something that I'm calling a "wellness toolkit" in my head. Not sure if there's already a term for this. I have built over the years a combination of apps, classes and practices that help me maintain and improve my health. I'm curious about what others do.

Here's mine:

Physical Activity
- Darebee for strength training
- Pilates class twice a week
- Zombies Run for cardio
- Lately, RingFit Adventure on Nintendo Switch
- Tracking with Fitbit

Sleep Quality
- Tracking with Fitbit

Nutrition
- Monthly nutritionist appointment
- Meal-prep for breakfast and lunch

Stress Management
- Calm app for meditation
- Bullet Journaling

Financial Health
- Spreadsheet on google docs to track my monthly budget

What do you do? Would you add any other dimensions?

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I have to ask, what's a lucker? 

In responce, some background first. I am a 60 yr old female living in Florida, Usa.

I have worked out in a gym, on and off for the last 40 years. Having 3 kids during that time.

I play doubles tennis 2 or 3 times a week. I lift weights and walk on the treadmill at least 5 times a week.

I have currently gone back to tracking my food intake and calorie burn in an attempt to lose 8 more pounds while adding muscle. That is the tricky part, as I don't want to lose any muscle while Iose fat.

 

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@aecjones. finally a ? I have the answer for 😀   the term goes back to the early days of the net, yes there was internet before Google, even Yahoo and even Netscape... a lurker is a person that reads posts on line but remains silent and rarely if ever contributes . The term was more derogatory in the past but on lists such as these it really shouldn't be seen as negative in any way .  

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For physical activity I use just a few apps, mostly specific to my sport.

 

- Rockfax - most important

- VerticalLife - recent discovery, not sure what to think about it yet

- TopLogger (mostly used for logging competitions)

- TrainingPeaks (useful analytics app but not going to renew subscription when it ends)

- Quantified-self.io (it's analytics website, mostly to compute total vertical ascent on routes)

- Komoot to plan hikes and cycling trips. I can easily create route and upload to the watch for navigation.

- MetOffice - because I need to be a few steps ahead with the weather when planning for outdoors.

 

Finances:

- MoneyDashboard - not perfect but helps a lot with budgeting and telling me I spend too much for a coffee 😉

 

I don't track sleep and food (before, I used MFP). Tracking sleep I find pointless and if I need to track food again then MFP (they added lots of great stuff recently).

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