I have a love/hate relationship with the scale! I used to have a total hate relationship with it because I weighed myself about 3 times a day and I constantly felt discouraged and confused by the fluctuations. In my mind I had this dream number that I wanted to see and would cut my calories so low and kill myself on the treadmill and elliptical daily in hopes of reaching that number and guess what? I would reach that number, but then I couldn't keep up with the calorie deficit and I would gain the weight back.
After my second child was born and he was about 9 months old the number on the scale was not too far from my pre-pregnancy weight and a weight I was okay with (mostly thanks to breast-feeding), but I felt AWFULl! I had no energy because I was eating junk and because I had no energy because of what I was eating I didn't want to work out. It was a vicious cycle and I knew something had to change! It wasn't the scale that caused this "aha" moment it was how I felt and my overall health. The number that was on the scale when I first started my clean-eating, healthy lifestyle to some would have been a dream weight and to others it might have been really high. The number on the scale is relative to change and you are the only person who sees it (except maybe your doctor once a year). So why not dig deeper within yourself and figure out how you feel. Do you see a higher number on the scale than you would like, but feel good and have the energy you need and want? Then quit stepping on that stinking thing! Or maybe the number on the scale is really low and you are excited to be at a weight you never thought you could achieve, but you did it the unhealthy way and have restricted your calories so low you don't have the energy you need to make it through the day. Both of these scenarios are the reason I say that the scale should never be used to measure you health! Ask yourself the hard questions and be honest with yourself. Are you making the healthy choices for your body MOST of the time? Are you making time for physical activity? Are you feeding your mind and soul with positive thoughts and growing as a person? These are the ways you should measure your health! NOT by a number on a scale!
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I am going to tell you a little secret: Everyone is DIFFERENT. Bet that isn't something you didn't already know, huh? Well, sometimes it is hard for me to accept that because when I feel so passionately about something I can't understand why someone else doesn't agree with me. This goes for health, nutrition, and fitness as well as for other more serious and controversial subjects that I won't go into here:)
Anyway, I have finally accepted (most days:) that as far as health, nutrition, and fitness goes everyone doesn't have to do what I do or do it how I do it. What works for me might not work for someone else. What WILL work for fitness results is a program that you love doing. Because if you don't enjoy doing it, guess what? You won't do it! If you don't do it.....you won't get results! Same thing goes with nutrition. I eat mostly clean, but there are some people that eat WAY more clean and pay even more attention to what they put in their bodies and then there are a lot of people that pay no attention to what they put in their bodies. We are all different! For nutrition I do know that for me to start out I had to make little changes in what I was eating and then I continued to make little changes that ended up making a big change over time. For some people they need that drastic immediate change (they go 110%) and don't like to wait for the big change. Both ways are perfectly fine if it works for YOU and you will stick with it! So today I want to encourage you that whether or not you are 10% or 110% dedicated to changing your health, be more than 0% dedicated and you will see progress and change! Keep up the good work and don't give up! |
Susan OzierChristian. Wife. Mother of 2 Boys. Runner. Clean-eater. Fitness and Nutrition Coach. Archives
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