I’ll be honest with you. I ‘ve always had a bad habit of weighing my progress, ahem make that failure on the scale on a daily basis. After many years of frustration, I’ve found that this habit does more harm than good.
It’s common knowledge that our bodies weight fluctuates daily with our water intake, hormonal balance and a ton of other variables. A couple of weeks ago, I painted myself into a corner by offering up my progress to all of my blog readers. That really put me on my toes and I decided to make some big changes, specifically in the area of being more active and eating smaller portions.
The challenge was that I was not willing to make this as hard as it had been in my previous years with Weight Watchers. I wanted these changes to be more natural and instinctive.
I had been noticing that I was making enormous progress by using the tapping along with my Juicy Woman Party Callers each week. I found that without even trying to reduce my portions, I easily was able to feel satisfied by eating less food on smaller plates and I noticed that I was craving different types of food, especially salads and vegetables.
The challenge was that I was not seeing any daily progress on the scale. This annoyed me! On the day of my last NLP class, I shared a very interesting phenomena with my coach colleagues. That morning I stepped on the scale feeling very much lighter than in the previous weeks and filled with energy. This was the first time in over a week, that I had weighed myself. When I got on the scale at first the needle registered 164 pounds. That represented a loss of over 3 pounds. I was overjoyed. Not believing it, I had to step on the scale again and lo and behold the needle went back up to 168. I was crushed.
I shared this very upsetting phenomena with my colleagues and they assured me that as long as I was making changes, felt better, more energetic and satisfied with smaller portions than I was already “in the zone.” It was just a matter of time before the scale would reflect those changes. They urged me not to pay attention to the numbers on the scale and suggested that I just get rid of my scale.
How many of you are tied to your scale? Please share your comments and your experiences of what happens when you don’t get to see the number that you want. Do you give up and pig out that day or do you just keep on moving forward. My guess is that the majority of people with weight issues have a negative anchor tied to the scale and have difficulty getting away from it always seeking to get that final validation from that mechanical monster. Do you agree?