Weightloss. Everywhere you turn you see ads for quick and easy weight loss. Pills, shakes, creams, and even laser therapies. If you have followed me at all, you know I have struggled with my weight since our daughter got sick the first time. I know I am repeating myself, but I am a major stress eater. Knowing and understanding your eating habits and eating triggers is critical to success in weight loss.
Fast forward to this spring. Gyms had been closed for three plus months. Our business has been drastically affected by this pandemic as well. That was a recipe for disaster for me. Food for comfort, beer and pizza, wine, chips and so much more. The latest health issue in our home if our son hurting his back over a year ago during off season baseball training. That is another story, but let's just say, unsupervised weight training with young high school athletes is a REALLY bad idea. He has struggled a lot and missed a lot of baseball as well. The masses of tests, emergency room visits and so much more has been stressful to say the least.
We trusted so many people and medical professionals to figure out what was going on with his back. The answer? I don't know. His tests are normal. We finally turned to a long time friend and person trainer Jason Ivesdal. Jason is the perennial student and is always studying and learning to better service his clients. Our son started training with Jason and working on building back his strength and mobility. Of course then COVID hit. there was no more training with Jason for over 3 months. But, this isn't about our son. I always went along to our son's training sessions with Jason. Jason and I would chat about a lot of different things during those sessions.
One very emotional day for me, I said to him with tears in my eyes, "I can't be like this anymore, I need your help to lose this weight for good.". His simple answer, "I will help you."
I will write more about the process later, but right now I want to talk about the scale. I have been a slave to the scale for many years. If I had a night of beer and pizza, I would step on the scale the next day. I would get frustrated that the scale would go up significantly and it would take me days to get back to where I was. I would get frustrated and say things like, "I won't ever be able to eat normal food again. Every time I eat normal food I gain weight." "I'm never going to get to my goal weight." In the past the scale would make me feel like a failure. It was not a healthy place for me to be so obsessed with the scale.
The scale does not always reflect where you are in a weight loss journey. There are other considerations. For example: Are you retaining water? Do you have food allergies? Are you working out and building lean muscle mass? The scale is only one piece of a larger wellness puzzle.
So, I changed my focus. Now I am excited to step on the scale and don't concern myself with how much it goes down. I am looking at the scale as a tool to help keep me on track. I am learning what foods and what things make the scale go up slightly. That way I can adjust my "normal" eating habits to not eat those things as frequently. I also purchased a new scale. This one has an app (doesn't everything) associated with it that lets you visually track your progress. As an accountability tool, I make adjustments if I see the scale go up. This will help me ultimately from rebounding and gaining the weight back.
My scale was also not accurate. So many home scales are NOT! That didn't help my cause. So I decided to splurge on a new scale. Withings Body Scale
Who would have ever thought I would be excited about a scale? This bad boy does all this:
- Tracks BMI & Weight Trends
- Up to 8 Users
- Wi Fi Synchronization
- Daily Weather Report
- Works with Multiple Health Apps
- Has a Baby & Pregnancy Mode (I am way beyond that but great for expectant Mother's!)
