Hey There!
I am up 2 lbs this last week. I am not getting down about that, in fact, getting down is the topic of the week.
This week did not go well, obviously. I am looking back at what contributed to falling backward. I slid backwards down the ice (reference to last week's metaphor) and this moment is about pulling out my pickaxe, slamming it into the ice and stopping my decent. I have been thinking today about what I need to do differently this week. I have decided to look back as much as it is helpful to learn from this past week, then violently turn back around and face this week with even more determination.
I am going to make a few changes this week, and this is the biggest one.
Weigh myself only on Mondays.
Recently, I have been weighing myself almost everyday and my mood and excitement about being more healthy that day is linked too much to what the scale says. Weighing myself everyday has been a Lose/Lose thing for my lately. If it looks like my weight is going down, I am really happy and sometimes don't do what I need to do that day since I am doing so well. If it looks like my weight has not changed or is going up, I sometimes don't do what I need to do that day since I am doing so poorly. I get bummed and some or a lot of the wind is taken out of my sails. This has not been helpful and I am making a change as of today.
I am going to focus other important factors and the weight will follow. I am going to focus on how good I am feeling, how my clothes are fitting, how easy it feels to get up out of a chair or up off the floor, how much I am moving around and working out and how closely I am following the Skinny Rules.
These are going to be my focus going forward. I am excited and motivated! (two things I was struggling with before I wrote today's entry)
Take away for this week: Don't get too down on yourself when you slip up or slid backwards a bit. The important thing is not that you slid but that you do not keep sliding and learn from the slip. Henry Ford said "Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them." I for one am tiered of going around my weight and the things that make me feel unmotivated and unhealthy. I have become, as many overweight people have, very good at going around those kinds of problems and finding ways to not think about them. I am becoming someone that is amazing at solving the problems once and for all so that they are not in my way, not because I have found ways to not think about them, but because they do not exist.
Have a great week!
Scuba
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