Lately, I find myself looking into WiFi scales. You know, the ones that weigh you and then automatically upload that number so you can’t forget in the minutes between weighing and going to the computer to log. The ones that make it so you can’t “forget” to log your weight.
I use an app on my phone to track my weight. I make it a point to weigh every day so I can get a good idea of what food and exercise does to my body. It helps me see if there is a trend going on with my weight. If I’m suddenly up 2 pounds in a day, I don’t worry about it as long as those two pounds disappear. If I’m surprisingly down 2 pounds in a day, I can’t let that motivate me too much – I’m probably just dehydrated.
But there are definitely days where I see the number on the scale and I just don’t want to write it down. It’s higher than I want it to be and I know it’s because I’ve been eating poorly. So I don’t write it down. Because if it’s not written down, it’s not real, right?
Wrong. And maybe this is the problem that I’ve been having with losing weight all along. It’s a struggle to find balance to properly fuel my body for training without overfueling, but that’s not the issue. The issue is that I lie to myself. “Well, tomorrow is my Weight Watchers reset day, so it doesn’t matter what I eat today because points reset tomorrow.” Yeah, that doesn’t work so well, self.
So the key here is to be honest with myself. Because of my training, I don’t expect to lose weight fast. I know that some of it is building muscle. But the belly fat isn’t muscle and it needs to go. And to encourage it to leave, I need to be accountable to myself.
I struggle with this as well. I have a FitBit as well as the Aria Fit Bit scale. I’ve been on and off WW multiple times, and per my own reasons have decided it’s ultimately not for me. Since dropping the weekly weigh in with WW, I still weight myself regularly and have actually learned to attach a lot less meaning to it. It’s such a work in progress though. Now, if the scale is a bit up, I’m all “maybe less pizza this week”, instead of “you’re fat and no more pizza ever”. Progress not perfect…
eileen ragan | leaner by the lake recently posted…mindful health // distance traveled: 100 miles.
I have one of those scales that automatically records the weight to whatever you’re tracking, and you’re right, you can’t avoid “Writing it down.” I more so avoid the scale completely if I don’t want to see the number.
The writing it down problem for me is food logging. If I even get one calorie off track, I through everything in the trash and stop logging for the day. It is totally counterproductive, but can’t seem to get out of that loop.