Today, I wanted to talk about how the Apple Watch Series 3 motivated me to start running and ultimately lose 78 pounds.
Here are my notes for this episode.
- Never used the workout stuff on the watch
- Wore it off and on
- Watch has slow performance
- Bought it for cellular–really cool–much faster performance, streaming music
- Got into Nike shoes through Gary Vee and saw Casey Neistat always raving about running.
- Downloaded Nike’s running app, Nike Run Club
- First run on Oct 4, 2017: 1.6 miles in 20 minutes–I was dead
- Weighed 256 pounds that morning
- Decided to try to stick with running
- Decided to make effort to close the Apple Watch rings
- Really, really sucked at first
- Switch between treadmill and outdoors
- Could not run one mile on the treadmill or outdoors without walking
- First few runs were guided runs with Nike Run Club app, just with my watch, and AirPods, no cell phone
- Learned from the second guided run that I wasn’t racing with anyone but myself, to listen to my body, and that there was no shame in slowing down or walking
- Began running from my home to the track nearby and did laps. Was very difficult to run back home since it was uphill
- Had a couple of injuries that made me stop for a week or two, but kept at it
- Changed diet: stop eating lunch at work because I was never really hungry and would generally only eat because my partner at work ate. Now that I work alone, I still take my lunch break, but don’t eat unless I’m hungry.
- Running got easier over time.
- I ran longer distances: 8.3 miles was the longest. Was up to 35 miles/week
- People started to notice dramatic weight loss, asked me if I was sick (a coworker recently passed away due to pancreatic cancer and he also had dramatically lost weight)
- Never gave up
- Was honest with myself
- Stuck with the diet
- Kept running
- Weight is staying off
- Credit to Apple and the Watch, but
I was my main motivator.
