To weigh or not to weigh?

Is that not the only question sometimes?

The scale is daunting. I said it. The number you see may dictate how you feel about yourself for the rest of the day. It may also cause you to binge or even bring up feelings that you have long suppressed since you were a chubby middle school boy living in the bay area…just me?

To combat my fear of the scale, I decided to go the habitualization route. By weighing myself everyday, it became part of my routine. I slowly no longer feared the scale due to it just being part of my life. We aren’t scared of the air around us because it is part of our life. The scale was now part of mine. By tracking my weight everyday, I was able to find patterns on how my body retained weight or lost it. It also gave me valuable data points that I could look at when I was worried my progress stalled. For example, whenever my weight stalled at a certain weight, I could always look back at the previous data and remind myself that it happened before and I still eventually lost weight. This type of encouragement from the data itself is what helped me push past my fear and stick to this weight loss journey.

So to weight or not to weigh…weeeeiighhhhhhh.