This is great! What has the Power over YOU?

Okay, read the whole thing, I connected and I'm sure all of you will too! The scale never has told me the "whole story" especially if you excercise! Hugs- Debbie

What has the Power over you? Posted: 12 May 2010 04:00 AM PDT     Last night, at 9:32 pm, I found myself slumped Gollum-like over my smart phone compulsively checking my work email.  As I waited for the opening page (you know the one...the one that says who has emailed you and what they have emailed you about -- the one that tells you if you can breath because you have the "all clear" or the one that is notifying you that your desk has just been lit on fire and you better have a plan to fix it by tomorrow morning), I realized how much I live and die by what this particular piece of technology tells me. As I took a mental step back from the Gollum-posed me, I was struck by the similarities of my posture and intensity to that of a kid waiting for an answer to a question made to a Magic 8 Ball.  Remember asking when you were a kid -- sometimes it seemed amazing that the 8 Ball could give you the answer you sought!  ("Does So-and -so really and truly like me???"  "Outlook looks good!") Okay -- we're older and wiser now.  We know the 8 Ball doesn't hold the key to our future -- it has no insights except what we give it.  (Right??) So...let's look at another scenerio.  What about when you get up in the morning and step on the scale.  How much power are you giving that scale over how you feel about your yesterday and your today?? If the number is down -- "Yeh!  I rule the world!!"  But if they numbers are up -- "I suck!". And yet -- much like the Magic 8 Ball -- the numbers on the scale have no insights into the person you are, how you spent your yesterday or what great things you will accomplish today.  They are just numbers. They do not define you.  You give them power they do not have without your active participation. Don't be Golum-like on your scale -- it's not a pretty picture and you certainly deserve better from yourself.

Debbie.....very positive...thank you!!!

Hugs.....connie d

Deep!  Good thought provoking post.  Thanks for sharing.

I used to let the number on the scale rule my mood.  I'm a lot better about it now but do think it is good to keep a regular check on what the number is otherwise before we know the lbs can creep back on (a little easily).

 Thank you SO much for posting this.  I'm usually not one to dwell on the bad, but for the last almost 2 weeks I haven't lost an ounce!  I've been a bit frustrted.  Really, just a bit, but still.         In the back of my mind I know that I'm progressing very nicely since my WLS, but some little devil insists on sitting on my right shoulder telling me to "get on the scale.....get on the scale" and then the angel on my left shoulder says "Don't get on the scale today, DON'T get on the scale today" because that angel knows that I'll be upset with myself if I haven't lost anything since my last drop. but the devil wins out and I DO get on that scale.   

After ready your post I now have put things into perspective.  It's ONLY a number (just like age).  I feel healthier now than I have in a very VERY long time.  Happier with myself as well, in general.  Life is really good. 

there ya go my buddy...the scale...just a number like our AGE! Ha! Liked that bigtime...
Okay just stay off the scale and do the best you can. This is about life, learning and we have to remember how FAR we have come.

Yes folks...the scale is evil sometimes! LOL