What is that miniature monster doing on my bathroom floor?

Are you so conscious about your weight that you are addicted to your scale?

Every morning when you get up, do you weigh yourself first thing? If the numbers have gone down, are you elated and your day is awesome?

If the numbers have gone up, are you depressed and your day is the worst ever?

Sound familiar?

I actually hated the bathroom scale! I would do everything possible to avoid stepping on it. I was on so many ricochet diets that I could not even bring myself to go visit the doctor for my annual check-up because the nurse would make me get on the scale to be weighed.

Being weighed was like sending me to some sort of failure recital every time. I was so afraid that the reading on the scale was going to be unfavourable that I would even avoid going to the doctor.

Imagine that!

Can you relate?

Did you know that if you are considered obese, some life insurance companies will not give you coverage? Did you know that people who are considered obese have a much higher rate of heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, and liver dysfunction?

With all the electronics available to us today, we don't even have to get up to change the channel on the TV any more. Soon even driving will be automatic and we will just be able to set the dial on our car to a certain address, and GPS will guide the vehicle to our destination.

Even as it is, we spend inordinate amounts of time sitting.

Did you know that sitting is the new smoking? Yes statistics are showing that people who do not get up and exercise are just as prone to heart and lung disease as someone who smokes a pack a day!

Also, all this sitting is causing more weight gain. Failure to move our bodies, allows more fat to accumulate. Moving and exercising can turn fat into muscle.

So, if you are like me, allergic to the bathroom scale; if you are working out on a regular basis, you are building lean muscle mass, and that weighs more than fat. Also, the scales will show weight gain because of the increased muscle mass.

The measurement we need to be more aware of is our inches lost. Our weight may stay the same for a period of time, or even increase a bit, but our inches will be decreasing as we become more trim.

How cool is that!

Want to lose your fear of the bathroom scale and trade it for being trim and fit?

Let's chat!

Lisa Mercier-Goodwin
Freedom 2 Live Coach

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