Are your bathroom scales a friend or a foe?

Are your bathroom scales a friend or a foe?

Do you give them too much power over your happiness?

I did.

Until I realised I was asking them for the wrong information.

Instead of stepping on them to see how much weight I was losing on a diet, I should have been using them every day to see how much weight I was putting on.

The brain is a tricky thing.

It used to baffle me how I could gain 20kg without noticing.
Yes… 20kg, without noticing.

Maybe you’ve had the same experience?

I can’t tell you how many times I asked myself, “How on earth did that happen?”

Well, the answer is actually very simple.

It happens because we stop stepping on the scales when we don’t like what they tell us.

Instead of using the information constructively—taking note and making small adjustments to our food and movement that day—we ignore it. We brush it off. And when the scales keep showing an increase, we just avoid them altogether.

The most effective way to use the scales is simple.
Step on them every day.

Understand your weight will fluctuate—what you ate, when you ate, digestion, hormones, fluid.
Know your average outside of that.
Pay attention when it starts trending up.
Make small adjustments straight away and steer yourself back on track.

Scales aren’t good or bad. They just give you information.

It’s what you do with that information that matters.

And really… it’s better to know, isn’t it?