Scale In Hiding-Week One
Last week, I wrote about how I am ignoring the scale completely in order to hopefully have a tunnel vision of some sort, on the positives of my body, my health and the progress I am hoping to see. I am working on looking for the non scale victories and focusing on how good I feel instead of just pressuring myself to fit a certain number. If you know me, I tend to have an addictive personality. That basically means, if I am going to weight myself, I will weigh myself every single day and fixate on even an eighth of a pound. I've let it ruin my day, convinced that people could see that eighth of a pound in my face or hanging over my jeans. Completely not a healthy mindset, so I decided to give up the scale. I wanted to give y'all an update as to how that is going.
The first day, when I woke up, I caught myself getting on the scale again. I got off of it before it could register a number and T asked why I didn't let it show me the number like I normally do. I told him the whole story and he was completely supportive. He thought it was such a great idea because he says I'm too hard on myself and need to realize that I accomplish more than I think I do. What he said gave me encouragement, not only with my goals but also that I am doing something that will benefit my mental health as well as my physical health.
The second day, I did measure myself. Surprise, surprise nothing really changed. I did feel an anxiety almost, because I knew I would want to measure myself the next morning expecting a difference. I'm fighting the urge to measure myself again, at least for another month.
Later on in the week, I went for a run. Like I said in my last post (read it here!- it's really good, you'll like it :)), I am training for a 5k in June. Therefore, I'm training to get faster, to get stronger and healthier. So over the last month or two, I have improved my mile time by 50 seconds to a minute!
I'm still not very good at running, so for me this is huge!
This week, I have stuck with my activity goals. The girls have been walked at least 3 times and I've been to the gym 3 times, but the food diary - not doing so hot. I'll work on it.
I have noticed that I am much more aware of the amount of steps I take throughout the day and strive to walk more and more. I'm still debating on if this is a good thing or not.
Overall, this is just my first week without the scales pressures but I'm optimistic. I hope that soon I will see some clothes fitting differently and the ability to run longer intervals. But mostly, I hope that the urge to weigh myself every morning or after a bad eating day decreases more than it has.
I would definitely recommend hiding your scale, or even just ignoring it for a few days (if you're not wanting to do weeks), just to see how you feel giving it your all in the gym and eating right. After all, focusing on how you feel, listening to your body and always looking for the positives is what it's all about.
The first day, when I woke up, I caught myself getting on the scale again. I got off of it before it could register a number and T asked why I didn't let it show me the number like I normally do. I told him the whole story and he was completely supportive. He thought it was such a great idea because he says I'm too hard on myself and need to realize that I accomplish more than I think I do. What he said gave me encouragement, not only with my goals but also that I am doing something that will benefit my mental health as well as my physical health.
The second day, I did measure myself. Surprise, surprise nothing really changed. I did feel an anxiety almost, because I knew I would want to measure myself the next morning expecting a difference. I'm fighting the urge to measure myself again, at least for another month.
Later on in the week, I went for a run. Like I said in my last post (read it here!- it's really good, you'll like it :)), I am training for a 5k in June. Therefore, I'm training to get faster, to get stronger and healthier. So over the last month or two, I have improved my mile time by 50 seconds to a minute!
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| Talk about a non-sale victory! |
This week, I have stuck with my activity goals. The girls have been walked at least 3 times and I've been to the gym 3 times, but the food diary - not doing so hot. I'll work on it.
I have noticed that I am much more aware of the amount of steps I take throughout the day and strive to walk more and more. I'm still debating on if this is a good thing or not.
Overall, this is just my first week without the scales pressures but I'm optimistic. I hope that soon I will see some clothes fitting differently and the ability to run longer intervals. But mostly, I hope that the urge to weigh myself every morning or after a bad eating day decreases more than it has.
I would definitely recommend hiding your scale, or even just ignoring it for a few days (if you're not wanting to do weeks), just to see how you feel giving it your all in the gym and eating right. After all, focusing on how you feel, listening to your body and always looking for the positives is what it's all about.
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| One of my all time favorite quotes |
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