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How fitness tracking enables disordered behaviors

My fitness tracker says I burned 3000 calories today and I feel accomplished but also like I am slowly disappearing and I do not know which feeling is true.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Technology can provide false objectivity that validates destructive patterns while obscuring their true cost.

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