🦄 Startups & VC 17h ago · James Brennan

I thought tracking every meal, workout, and hour made me disciplined. Looking back, it was punishment dressed up as self-control

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I thought tracking every meal, workout, and hour made me disciplined. Looking back, it was punishment dressed up as self-control
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Studies show self-monitoring apps correlate with disordered eating patterns at rates three times higher than the general population. Tracking culture sells itself as discipline. It’s not.
It’s anxiety with a user interface.
The spreadsheet logged every bite of food, every rep at the gym, every productive minute of the day. Color-coded cells tracking macros. Workout splits optimized down to the second. Time blocks scheduled in fifteen-minute increments.
That isn’t discipline. Th

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