Power of numbers on the scale.

LethaSue
LethaSue Posts: 285 Member
edited October 5 in Chit-Chat
I really wonder why.............. so many people, (very smart people) seem to go blind when it comes to the actual composition of a pound of FAT. I see people posting things about how much they ate the day before and how they felt so much better when they stepped on the scale the next day, only to see it was all ok because they either didn't gain a pound or in fact lost a pound or a fraction of one. Why is it people cannot realize that a pound of fat cannot manufacture over a few hours, or disolve over a few hours. The only thing you are seeing on the scale after a few hours is going to be liquid, or solids stuck in your body from food you have recently eatten and not eliminated. And it is those same deceptive numbers people see on the scale that makes us go on food binges, thinking "oh well, I am not losing anyways,I might as well go ahead and eat what I want". Think about a pound of fatty bacon and try to imagine how hard it is for our bodys to turn that massive greasy blob into something our bodies can burn up. If it were so easy to make that blob of fat burn out of our bodys, we would probabley be smelling like bacon frying on the stove.......... releasing all that greese. What we did or did not eat on Thanksgiving is not going to be reflected on our scales today, or even a few days from now. It's all going to get avgeraged out over the next few weeks and then, we will see some real numbers. We give the numbers on the scale way too much power. They can make us feel terrific, or bum us out. Maybe we should be snapping pictures of ourselves, each week and then lining up those pictures, to see the changes. They might be subtle, but wouldn't it be interesting to after a few weeks. I have seen pictures of litters of puppies, kittens, birds, and rabbits, that were taken every day as they grew and as small as the changes were each day, they made such drastic changes from week to week. We could make a flip book of our shrinking selves. :smile:

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