Not Letting the Scale Do More Harm Than Help
(Image Found via Google Search) We all know the feelings attached to the action of stepping on a scale, whether it's true indifference, curiosity, fear, anxiety, depression or a thousand other things. I received an important reminder today that they are just a tool, one tool that cannot tell me the whole story. It doesn’t take into consideration that I haven’t had a full period in two months and I am possibly retaining that uterine lining, it doesn’t care that I am working as hard as I possible can to match the desire for a healthy weight against the food addict in me and the addiction to the numbers in my life that will say that I am worthwhile, that I am not a failure. Well someone in my close vicinity decided to eff with me and tell me that the scale was inaccurate by fifteen pounds and when I turned and told him to keep that kind of crap to himself he didn’t understand, questioned and laughed off my request and here I am over two plus hours later still shook from this experie...