Weighing it up .. How often should you weigh?
Should you weigh every day, once a week, more, less , or perhaps never?
As a Dieter in Recovery, I wanted to be less dependent on the scale.
In the past, my mood was decided by the number on the scale. It dictated how I felt, what I wore and how I ate for the day. If I weighed in ‘heavy’ my day would go in to a number of destructive paths.
My inner demon would tell me that I was a loser. What a terrible way to start the day. This would often result in my going on a ‘what’s the point’ binge. I am sure, dear reader, you know this so well :t he eating marathon where you stuff until you get to bursting point.
Or the shame would set in, that sense of failure, a belief system created by me that I was worthless, and could not get ‘this right”. The obsessiveness and the dependency around the scale needed to change.
As I worked my program, I weighed myself less and less.
I still weigh… it is a recovery process.
But I never get on the scale if I am not in a good emotional place.
I measure my feelings about my body with other methods. If I am tired and feel sluggish, I look for patterns. Did I have too many snacks food and one glass of wine too many?
I want my body to perform the best it can, and the scale does not tell me how my body feels.
Or it can, as I used it in the past, a way to reward myself when my body screamed starvation.
I weigh myself when I don’t have an emotional charge around the outcome. It is for informational purposes only.
I get on the scales when I know the outcome will not determine my day.
The obsessiveness of weighing myself made me crazy. This is one less destructive thing I do to myself.
If the scales has too much power and is blocking your relationship to achieving a healthy relationship with your body, resist the urge to get on it.
Take a walk, journal, practice some loving kindness mantras.
You are so worth it!
The measure of you should not be determined by an inanimate object.
Thanks for reading,
Christina
Keep a note of how many times you weighed this week, and what feeling you had and how you reacted (did you eat less, more and how was your mood?)