So in order to take money off my health care costs, I have been corralled to participate in a program that has goals and coaching.

I'm not a particular fan of either.

But in order to keep my interest up, I've started to use Argus and Runkeeper.

Runkeeper feeds into Argus and the company generalized wellness program (at least it should, I've not seen it take action yet).  I can't really recommend either yet, but so far I like Argus's display and what I'm willing to track (steps, water & coffee consumption).  I've gotten permission to get a scale to track weight, body fat, etc.

Hopefully the statistics and graph of this will keep me interested enough to continue on all this.

On a whole, I have a general problem with how this is working.  I don't like to be coached nor do I like to set goals.  If I, generally, know what I need to do, having someone tell me the same thing I already know is redundant.  I don't need encouragement because that won't particularly motivate me to move forward in the path that they want.  Goals I find pointless, because I have general guidelines, that have to be adjusted along the way.  Example, we had to quickly pay off Shannon's student loans, not because they were the smallest debt, nor were they the highest interest rate (not by a long shot), but it became a burden on the rest of the budget (due to the processor's lack of adjusting the graduated rate of repayment, until the very end).  It adjusted the generalized target over the short term, which, if I had set another financial goal, would've made that goal a failure.  Yes, I am aware that I have posted goals in the past.

To ask me to do these things, is not how to motivate me.  However, I understand that some people do like to have these types of encouragement.  These services, however, are not available to all people, just those of us who are "at risk" of higher medical costs.  I understand why, I really do, but shouldn't it be good to offer these (even at a small cost, vs no cost for us at risk) to everyone who wants to better their lives in this fashion?

On another note, I finally got my CPAP machine replaced.  I've had this one  so long (that the last time I had it in for repair) they said I was lucky, because they're almost out of support for them.  It doesn't record my sleeping habits (other than counting the hours of sleep since it started (near 15k or 16k hours)).  This one has a card that I can take in for reading and give some knowledge to my provider to how I'm doing.  This replaces the one that my mother ungifted from me (it was fair, I never got around to using it anyways).  Luckily this means no more sleep studies, which is good cause the last one I slept for shit (I don't sleep well, in general, and less so in unfamiliar places).  That reminds me I need to report back on a question from my provider (reminder added to calendar).