{"id":45674,"date":"2019-01-01T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/?p=571409"},"modified":"2019-01-01T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:00:15","slug":"the-journey-continues-apple-watch-positivity-and-improving-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/01\/the-journey-continues-apple-watch-positivity-and-improving-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The journey continues: Apple Watch, positivity, and improving mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/12\/activity-rings.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I first wrote about my health and fitness journey with the Apple Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2017\/01\/01\/apple-watch-new-years-resolutions-losing-50-pounds\/\">two years ago<\/a>. The last couple of years have been eventful (to say the least), so an update is in order.\u00a0I started 2017 on a high note, faced new challenges in my personal life that flipped my world upside down, saw the birth of my son, and moved my family to a new house.<\/p>\n<p>My health and fitness journey and experience with running peaked in the spring, then I broke my healthy routines after a difficult experience over the summer that triggered a crippling depression \u2014 not the first episode I&#8217;ve experienced but the worst. Similar to physical health, mental health has long been something I\u2019ve found difficult to manage throughout life for a myriad of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the personal situation settled down around fall, but I felt completely exhausted and needed a break. I\u2019d met my fitness goals every day for a year and felt okay with resetting my Activity Rings streak. The journey back has been a brand new challenge, and it\u2019s also shown me new ways to approach the Apple Watch \u2014 as both a coach and monitor for physical health as well as a signal for changes in my own mental health.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/01\/apple-watch-journey-continues\/#more-571409\" class=\"more-link\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/01\/apple-watch-journey-continues\/\">The journey continues: Apple Watch, positivity, and improving mental health<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/12\/activity-rings.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1500\"><\/div>\n<p>I first wrote about my health and fitness journey with the Apple Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2017\/01\/01\/apple-watch-new-years-resolutions-losing-50-pounds\/\">two years ago<\/a>. The last couple of years have been eventful (to say the least), so an update is in order.&nbsp;I started 2017 on a high note, faced new challenges in my personal life that flipped my world upside down, saw the birth of my son, and moved my family to a new house.<\/p>\n<p>My health and fitness journey and experience with running peaked in the spring, then I broke my healthy routines after a difficult experience over the summer that triggered a crippling depression &mdash; not the first episode I&rsquo;ve experienced but the worst. Similar to physical health, mental health has long been something I&rsquo;ve found difficult to manage throughout life for a myriad of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the personal situation settled down around fall, but I felt completely exhausted and needed a break. I&rsquo;d met my fitness goals every day for a year and felt okay with resetting my Activity Rings streak. The journey back has been a brand new challenge, and it&rsquo;s also shown me new ways to approach the Apple Watch &mdash; as both a coach and monitor for physical health as well as a signal for changes in my own mental health.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/01\/apple-watch-journey-continues\/#more-571409\">more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/01\/apple-watch-journey-continues\/\">The journey continues: Apple Watch, positivity, and improving mental health<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/01\/the-journey-continues-apple-watch-positivity-and-improving-mental-health\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[452,2,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-bSG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45675,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45674\/revisions\/45675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}