Low Weight= Good Day

High Weight = Bad Day

Recognizing that it had become an issue in my life, I decided that on September 1st I would do my monthly weight and measurements, and the scale would be off limits for the rest of the month.

It started off great! September 1st brought a new low weight, and I felt really good going into this challenge.

And…that’s about where the feeling good ended for a while.

The first week was TOUGH. I was tempted, and I just wanted to know how I was doing.  The scale sat in your eye line when using the bathroom, so every visit to my master bath meant staring at my biggest temptation.  I’m talking a temptation bigger than carbs! It got to the point that I had to ask Mike to hide the scale.  It helped.

Out of sight out of mind made week two much easier.

While I still wanted to know how the food I was eating was effecting me, I had no idea where are scale was, so the temptation faded quickly.

I was shocked that by the end of the week I barely thought about it. I wasn’t stressed about it, and I felt mentally stronger with more control over my day. It became apparent that my scale addiction was impacting more than I had thought originally. The relief of the morning fear and stress made me smile. I now looked forward to my morning coffee which always made me happy versus the scale which was a crapshoot sometimes.

The end of the month however brought some nervousness. What had this month done to my body? Mentally, I was more in control everyday, but I didn’t know how on track I was or wasn’t.

The answer came on October 1st. Up 5.4 pound… the first gain I’d seen this year.

I could have cried; I could have punished myself with the treadmill, or I could have forced myself to fast when my body was hungry. I did none of that.

Instead, I reflected on how I could move forward and get back on track. Did I need to weigh myself everyday and stress over every pound (or. 1 pounds some days)? No, I didn’t want to go back to that sort of lack of control, but the month showed me that the motivation of that number did keep me on track.

Balance-what does it look like? I’m still figuring it out. October it looked like weighing in once or twice a week. The month resulted in a loss.

November it’s looking more like once every 10 days or so. Come December 1st, I had lost a little more. More adjustments will be made as I continue on my journey, but I know now that the scale and I can have a healthy relationship with the right balance.

What does your relationship with the scale look like? Do you feel it’s healthy for you?

Keep on keto-ing on-

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I’ll admit it: I’ve developed an obsession.

ob·ses·sion

noun

1. the state of being obsessed with someone or something.

   • an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person’s mind.

   The scale and I have a complicated relationship.  For those that follow me on Instagram, I shared that I hit my lowest weight in 8 years right before leaving on our vacation.  YAY, right? Except as it typically happens the number on the scale changes.  After a week long vacation, it was up 2.9 pounds.  NO BIG DEAL. However, I’ve become obsessed with seeing it come back off, and getting back to that milestone I had reached. (It hasn’t yet…)

   Because of this, I’m declaring September #ScaleFreeSeptember

    

   The rules are simple:

   1. Log my weight and measurements September 1st as that is my monthly weigh in day.
   2. Intuitive eating: eating what feels right.  I typically do this anyway, but I don’t want to resort to feeling like I need to calorie count and measure everything to compensate for not being able to see the scale change.
   3. No scale until Oct. 1st. Because I know I lack self control with it, I’ll be having my other half HIDE it for me

Keto has gained a lot of popularity as a way to lose weight, but it is so more than that.  It benefits your overall health in many other ways, and I want to spend the month of September focusing on that. My days should be focused on how I feel not how the number on the scale made me feel that morning.

I’m more than the number on the scale. You are more than a number on the scale.

Join me on Instagram or Facebook to hold each other accountable! 

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