The only scale for me is a food scale!

lavaughan69

I've decided that this time around (and there have been many times around) I was not going to measure my success of my diet by the number on my scale. It's the first time I've done something like this but I wanted to try a different approach. So many emotions are tired to that stupid number on the scale. Elation when it's good, but more often sadness, frustration, depression and a sense of failure have been the predominant feeling.

So here's what I'm doing differently. NO scales, NO measuring. I just took stock of how I feel. I'm at the heaviest I've been. How does that make me feel both physically and emotionally. How do I feel when I look in the mirror? When I get dressed? How do I feel when I climb stairs or go for a long walk? I'm being highly observant of my "self".

So I track my calories and log my exercise and on a regular basis I ask myself how I'm feeling.

Today, one month in, my clothes are still tight-that didn't feel great, I did my rowing exercise and that went really well, more stamina than when I first started, that was awesome. When I walked from my car to the door of my office I realized that my stomach was held in much tighter- that's great.

It's seems so strange to not be able to say "I lost 2lbs this week", success is usually measured by a number not on a feeling but my goal is to feel better about my health and better about the way I look and that truly doesn't require a scale.