Tracking your workouts, sleep, and nutrition can be helpful, but it can also become overwhelming. Here’s how to know when fitness tracking is supporting your goals and when it might be disconnecting you from your body.

Let’s be honest: it’s easy to get caught up in how we feel about our fitness progress instead of looking at what’s actually happening. Some days we feel on top of the world, other days we swear nothing’s working—and neither tells the full story.

That’s why tracking matters.