The Ups and Downs of Weight Loss
Fighting with the scale
One of the things everyone told me when I started losing weight was to not trust the scale. And I did the whole hand wave, “yah, right” thing. Because I knew there would be weeks where I’d put on muscle and the number wouldn’t move. I was above the little numbers flashing up at me.
Until I wasn’t. Until the scale went up instead of down on a week where I did everything right.
I won’t lie, it hit me hard and I ate my feelings about it.
Which didn’t help the next weigh in.
This used to be the part where I’d give up and go back to my bad ways.
I didn’t used to fight for my health, but this time was different. This time I wanted to prove the little voice in my head wrong.
I got back up and dusted myself off.
I reminded myself why I started this.
I got back to work.
The thing that got me going in the right direction again was my why. Why bother doing all this hard work? Why skip the sweets? Why bother taking control of my health?
My why became bigger than the number on the scale. My goals became bigger than my reasons to stop.
What makes you continue doing the hard work when things don’t go your way?
