Ditching the Scale

One thing that really helps me keep going in this process is analyzing what I'm doing that's helpful for me on my weight loss journey, and what things hinder me. For the last few days, I've been toying around with an idea, and this morning, I'm ready to follow through on it. I am going to ditch weighing myself for a while. I tend to weigh myself each morning, and often times it's not productive because if the numbers aren't what I want to see, I let that affect my attitude or outlook on the day. I watched the movie Eat Pray Love recently and Julia Roberts wisely spoke about our obsessive compulsive calorie counting, weight-managing selves. She said something to the effect of letting those numbers tell us exactly how much self-loathing we should engage in that day. That struck a chord with me! Self-loathing is not cool, and is so not the point here. The point here is health, wellness, feeling better, looking better, in that order. I'm a little nervous to let go of my friend the scale for a month...he is purely factual and never lies, and shows me progress, one way or the other. On the other hand, I feel a bit of freedom! Feel free to be healthy day in and day out, and not have to worry about the numbers as often. I really do think I let the numbers affect my outlook. Recently I was wanting to post on my blog but realized that again, all I had were negative whinings or ramblings about not wanting to go to the gym, not being close enough to my goal, etc. I hope that removing this object of negativity spurs me onto a more positive outlook.

In other news, for much of the country right now we are in Snowpocalypse 2011! We only got around five inches of snow here, but I hear there are ice and drifts of snow that are causing problems. I am on my second day of "working from home"! Yesterday it was so cold outside that I literally was not going to open my front door all day. I still found a way to work out though, I found a workout video called "Dance Yourself Thin" and actually had a lot of fun with it. Today I plan to bundle up and find my way to the gym.

Alright, so this will be the last time I weigh in for around a month! Currently my weight is at 194.4. We'll see where I'm at in March!