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Or you could get a smart watch and it does all the tracking for you and gives you rewards. It doesn't have to be top of the range. The basic watches do it.
My watch is what gets me motivated. It congratulates me for moving.
I've ordered a cheap Samsung one that will track steps for me. I've used the trackers in the past and found the way they are programmed to give rewards and things doesn't really work well for me, so I'm just going to use the data for my own system. Part of my neurodivergence is that most reward/punishment type systems really don't work for me, which is unfortunate as thats what most systems and programs work on!
You do what works for you.
I love my garmin because it counts my steps, tracks my heart rate, tells me to move when I've been sitting too long, tracks how many calories I've burnt, guesses my exercise, reps, sets, my sleep, graphs. Turns my music/ pod casts volume up/down. Intensity minutes. I love it and I wouldn't know what to do without. And I'm absolutely shit at technology and still manage to work it out.