How to turn your bathroom scales into friend not foe

Are you bathroom scales a friend or foe?

Do you give your bathroom scales too much power over your happiness?

I did.

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

Instead of asking them to tell me how much weight I was losing when I was on a diet, I should have been using them every day to tell me how much weight I was putting on!

The brain is a tricky thing and it used to always befuddle me how I could gain 20kg without noticing?

Yes, you heard me right…I could put on 20kg’s without noticing!

Maybe you’ve had the same experience?

I don’t know how many times I asked myself “How on earth did I gain 20kg without noticing?

Well, here’s the answer, and it’s a ridiculously simple one too……

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

Instead of using the information in a constructive way i.e.; take note of what’s happening and make small adjustments to our diet and body movement that very day. We ignore the information; we dismiss it and brush it off. And when the scales repeatedly tell us that our weight is going up, we simply just stop stepping on them.

The most effective way to use bathroom scales is to;

• Step on them every day
• Understand that your body weight fluctuates depending on a variety of variables, everything from how late, and what you ate, for dinner the night before, whether you poo’d enough the day before, along with hormonal changes and fluid retention.
• Know your average body weight outside of those fluctuations
• Pay attention when your body weight increases
• Make adjustments to your food intake and body movement that very day and start steering yourself back in the right direction

Scales are not the bearers of good news or bad news. They just provide the information. It’s up to us to decide if seeing the increase is good or bad. I say it’s good because it’s better to know, right?

An ounce of prevention is easier to implement than a pound of cure.

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