Posing the question to you: Do you use your Apple Watch for fitness tracking, or does that not interest you/fit into your lifestyle?
I hope you are feeling at least a little better today.
I do use the fitness tracking features, with the caveat that it's primarily to complete the fitness-related challenges in the lumihealth app, which in my country, is a collaboration between Apple and my government. I can complete challenges (like closing daily rings, or clocking a number of exercises / activities within a period of time) to earning points, which can then be exchanged for cash vouchers.
Lumihealth is a personalised health programme to encourage the adoption of healthy habits through curated health Quests of your choice, and using Apple Watch.
www.lumihealth.sg
I think it has worked for me in some regard, as this has been a fairly challenging year for me, and the various challenges that the app "pushes" me to complete has helped in adding some routine to my daily life. For example, I can earn points for logging my weight and completing breathing exercises daily (with a bonus every 5 days to get you to clock in daily). I get points for closing my rings every day, plus a bonus if I do it 6 times a week. This week, my challenge was to log 3 20-minute runs in the workout app. I do like running, but it's nice to be able to get a little something extra for your accomplishments, either minor or inconsequential.
Reflecting on this, I would likely have been way less motivated to close my rings if there wasn't some kind of extrinsic motivation egging me on (which in this case, is the hitting of milestones and earning of points, as I haven't gotten round to cashing out any of the rewards), and perhaps this is something you can consider trying out. See if there is some app that offers challenges that give you an excuse just to get out. I did manage a 180-day streak, which I recently had to break because I went for my covid booster jab, which knocked me out for a week.
However, I do also use my apple watch for numerous other purposes.
1) Apple Pay - for purchases and (especially) public transport.
2) Music / podcast controls
3) Accessing my passwords synced to the 1password watch app (because my work laptop is separate from my personal iCloud Keychain account)
4) Quick glances of information (eg: word of the day from Lookup, my account balance from my banking app, calculator).
5) I run the Siri watch face, which has my calendar synced, so I can see my day's schedule from there.
6) I also use Siri a fair bit (eg: hey Siri, what's 70% of $159 to find the final price of an item on discount). 😛
Lots of little conveniences here and there.
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