Scales are from Mars; Weight loss is from Venus! =)

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Exert from a newsletter I receive...

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How many times have I stressed to you that the scale MUST NOT mandate

your mood, dictate your success or be the only measure of your

progress?

Scales are from Mars; Weight loss is from Venus!

I thought that I had made this point pretty clear.

Evidently, not clear enough. I got this email today and have been

upset ever since. Read it and then let me explain.

" , I got weighed on Saturday morning as part of a gym challenge I

was participating in.

And I GAINED .25 POUNDS!!!!!!!!

Instead of going down I am going up! Maybe I just can't lose weight, I

am destined to stay fat! I have just wasted 7 weeks of working out and

chugging water for what? All to be a quarter pound heavier. By the

way, as a result, I have dessert and only did 15 minutes of exercise

and didn't drink my water on Saturday and Sunday. However, I did go to

the gym today, and drank water and had a healthy breakfast this

morning. But I was so mad on Saturday that I just didn't care. I am

still mad, but this body is not going to get the best of me, it is

going to lose weight. Somethings gotta give. "

OK, do you sense not only my frustration but also that of this woman?

First off, a 1/4 of a pound up is gaining weight? It could be a full

bladder, an undigested meal from the day before, water, PMS, lunar

movement--but weight gain? I don't think so! Not when for the 7 prior

weeks this woman's actions have been healthful!

Now, let me ask you this; is 1/4 of a pound of increase measure enough

to cause one to throw in the towel, stop trying and self-destruct? I

don't think so and I hope you don't either.

Fear not, I have spoken with this woman and she is soundly back on

track. But, the bummer is that she is now " getting started " again with

being dessert free, " getting started " again with her commitment to

the gym and to drinking water.

It is sort of like a sacred trust, this whole weight loss thing. You

must trust that if your ACTIONS are consistently healthy that the

scale will ultimately move downward in time--but at it's own time, NOT

yours! We all want the pounds off overnight, but that just doesn't

happen. We didn't gain weight noticing every 1/4 pound, but we expect

to lose it by measurable means? To be able to see the pounds inching

off each day?

IMPOSSIBLE! I lost 130 pounds, it took 15 months, at a rate of 8

pounds a month and 2 pounds a week ON AVERAGE! I am sure there were

days that it went up a 1/4 of a pound and others that it dropped 1 or

2; but thankfully, I didn't weigh in so I never knew. I just knew when

I got 'there'!

Are you going to get there, or weigh yourself out of trying?

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