Check your emotions at the door

1ZenGirl
1ZenGirl Posts: 432 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Had a freak out with my trainer today about the amount of calories he wants me to eat every day and it really reminded me of how much work I have to do in my head space about how I need to eat to lose weight. He told me to "check my emotions at the door". I mean really, it was ridiculous, he is totally right.

I'm lifting 3 days a week and cardio 2 days and eating 1900 calories a day and right now that is the right thing for what I am doing. I'm just starting this new workout regimen and clearly I'm retaining water. I need to follow what I know, which is that the scale is the worst predictor of short term success. I hate falling back into those old patterns of thinking. I thought I would be done with that by now but it clearly is not. I've taken pictures and my measurements and I am flirting with just throwing the damn scale away. It serves no purpose right now now other than a demotivator. Changing 49 years of being a slave to the scale and refocusing on body composition is such a new way of looking for me. And I have to be all in or it won't work.


So I had an awesome workout, went and had a latte and a cupcake and I'm still within my macros and calories for the day!

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  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
    Good trainer.
  • twixlepennie
    twixlepennie Posts: 1,074 Member
    +1
  • 1ZenGirl
    1ZenGirl Posts: 432 Member
    Good trainer.
    Yes he is, I totally trust him!
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    It can be scary and it's definitely an adjustment to go from eating as little as possible to eating to fuel your workouts, but it sounds like you're on the right track!
  • 1ZenGirl
    1ZenGirl Posts: 432 Member
    It can be scary and it's definitely an adjustment to go from eating as little as possible to eating to fuel your workouts, but it sounds like you're on the right track!

    Thanks! It's all about mindset. I'm nervous but I know that relying on anything I have ever done has not been steady. I was so afraid I had screwed up my metabolism from what I have done that going to 1900 calories was going to bring it all back. He totally negated that one. So I trust and persevere!
  • ILoveGingerNut
    ILoveGingerNut Posts: 367 Member
    uh uh! just check my profile pic. i'm with you!
  • rockmama72
    rockmama72 Posts: 815 Member
    Great post!
  • 1ZenGirl
    1ZenGirl Posts: 432 Member
    uh uh! just check my profile pic. i'm with you!

    Loving that!
  • ILoveGingerNut
    ILoveGingerNut Posts: 367 Member
    :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
  • stroutman81
    stroutman81 Posts: 2,474 Member
    I like this commentary... yep.
  • seamonsterr
    seamonsterr Posts: 30
    not sure which state you live in, in my state a trainer cannot tell you how to eat. a nutritionist, with a bachelor degree can tell you how/what to eat. A trainer is a person with an AA or sometimes an online certificate.
  • fitnesspro111
    fitnesspro111 Posts: 12
    bump great post!!
  • ILoveGingerNut
    ILoveGingerNut Posts: 367 Member
    not sure which state you live in, in my state a trainer cannot tell you how to eat. a nutritionist, with a bachelor degree can tell you how/what to eat. A trainer is a person with an AA or sometimes an online certificate.

    :heart: :heart: :heart:
    Sending you a FR!
  • p4ulmiller
    p4ulmiller Posts: 588 Member
    So I had an awesome workout, went and had a latte and a cupcake and I'm still within my macros and calories for the day!

    This. Just this.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    I agree...being a slave to the scale is hard thing to stop.

    Even when you know that number doesn't matter.

    The number on it can dictate your whole day...if you let it...good on you for seeing that.

    Even logically we know it but...sometimes that creeps in...

    I remind myself each time I step on it...you may weigh xxx (probably 165 today) but you are a size 8....which for me is huge...
  • starrylioness
    starrylioness Posts: 543 Member
    Wonderful post! Your trainer sounds awesome!
  • stroutman81
    stroutman81 Posts: 2,474 Member
    not sure which state you live in, in my state a trainer cannot tell you how to eat. a nutritionist, with a bachelor degree can tell you how/what to eat. A trainer is a person with an AA or sometimes an online certificate.

    A trainer in any state can offer general advice. In the state of her trainer (her trainer being me), I can't prescribe nutritional recommendations and diets... which I'm not.
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    Checking your emotions at the door is also good advice any time you're about to measure something. Picture yourself in a white lab coat, measuring the peanut butter of some anonymous test subject, or taking their scale weight. It's just a number. Later on you can wring your hands over your numbers but when you're measuring, just measure objectively.
  • stroutman81
    stroutman81 Posts: 2,474 Member
    not sure which state you live in, in my state a trainer cannot tell you how to eat. a nutritionist, with a bachelor degree can tell you how/what to eat. A trainer is a person with an AA or sometimes an online certificate.

    Oh, and to add to the above... if you're "in the market" for nutritional prescriptions... I wouldn't look to a nutritionist as you stated. I'd turn to a registered dietitian.

    At least in my state, pretty much anyone can coin themselves a nutritionist.

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