Tue, Jan-29-02, 11:17
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Plan: mostly paleo
Stats: //
BF:also don't care
Progress: 100%
Location: West Coast, USA
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Good question!
well....I'm certainly guilty of this over-reacting to the scale. I dont mind seeing the scale jump if I've gone off plan, I don't mind a daily fluctuation, and I don't mind a week or two stall, but now, in an eight-week stall that includes no cheats and trying a few experiments to see if some particular food is stalling me, I have to admit, it's frustrating that nothing works to budge the scale. I think I simply get pouty about life being "unfair!" I exercise daily, I eat moderate calories of about 1500/day (I have to--I know from experience if I ate 2200 calories a day, even LC, I'd gain six pounds a month) and low carb, I stay away from fake/processed foods, and still...nothing but a slight gain on that dratted scale for weeks at a time. So I guess it's either a normal human reaction or a weak and childish one on my part to feel frustrated, just part of that little-kid mentality that still believes that if you do things "right," you should get the promised reward. Perhaps I even immediately recall those conversations with doctors who told me I was not doing what they told me or what I was reported, or I'd be losing more weight, when in fact I was following whatever plan to a "T".
For me, I think the answer to these feelings really WILL be not changing something within myself, but getting rid of the scale. I imagine a world with no scales, no fat calipers, even no mirrors!, a world where we'd have to judge how good of a day it was or how good of a person we were only by how we felt or acted, not by how we guessed others were judging us on the basis of some surface issue like our body size or the value of our clothes. To me, that imaginary world seems ideal. The scale is part of the more troubling real world, fixated on minor details that can be counted in numbers. One of these days I'll be strong enough to get rid of it, i hope! If I can just throw it out early in the morning on some trash day, it'll be gone before I can change my mind!
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