This is why I SCALE! I weigh myself every Monday morning, first thing in the morning. I even write it down and keep track.
Why? Doesn't that make me weight obsessed? Let me explain.
I used to see all these transformation picture and think "that's amazing, but it'll never be me. I will never let myself get to the point where a drastic weight-loss is necessary." BOY WAS I WRONG!
I have been "blessed and cursed" with a good metabolism. I can pretty much eat what I want and not gain weight. I call this a blessing and a curse, a blessing for obvious reasons but a curse for maybe less obvious reasons. It is a curse because it took me until I was nearly 32 to develop any sort of regular fitness regiment into my life. 32! That's way too long to live life with essentially ZERO activity. No, I wasn't sitting on my butt the whole 32 years prior, but I wasn't consistently active either, and I certainly NEVER watched what I ate...no need to.
Then I had a child. I did NOTHING active during my pregnancy. I gave myself permission to eat whatever I wanted and sit on my butt all day. That was my right wasn't it? I was entitled to be lazy because I was growing a human. I was entitled to eat whatever I wanted, because it was for the baby. I don't remember the exact number but I did gain a lot of weight and the ONLY weight I lost for the next 3-ish years was the weight of my child when he was born.
After my divorce and the stress that put me through and introducing some workouts to my schedule I did loose most of my baby weight. Once it was off though I pretty much gave up on trying to make time for exercise. I didn't need it anymore.
Fast forward to around 2013/2014. I'm really struggling with my migraines and start on new medications. I was NOT stepping on the scale. I had gained nearly 30 lbs before I even knew it! Just like that, overnight it seemed like. I hadn't changed the way I ate. I wasn't working out but that wasn't new. I honestly had NO idea the scale was moving up because I wasn't stepping on it.
When I finally knew the extent of my weight gain it was from calling and asking my doctor's office for my weight over the years from appointments.
Last year I listened to Candace Cameron Bure's book "Reshaping It All" and in a lot of ways it was life changing!
**LIGHT BULB** Had I only been doing that could I have avoided gaining those 30+ lbs? To be honest I'm not sure...but this time I'm determined for that answer to be YES. Never again will I let that scale number creep up without being totally aware of the situation. I want to be in control of my life and destiny. I don't want to have another drastic weight-loss story. I want to have an AMAZING life story! I don't want my life to revolve around the scale, but to use the scale to make sure I don't hold the wool over my own eyes.
THIS is why "I scale."
Jess Because...Fitness DOES Matter
