Do you watch This is Us? Did you see this heart wrenching scene in episode 3 of season 4? Young Kate finishes a workout video (some sweet 80s jazzercise!) with her mom and feels so good! You see the accomplishment on her face. Then she heads to the bathroom on her own to check her weight.
And she is so disappointed. So very disappointed. She can’t understand why her weight didn’t change with her awesome workout. She doesn’t know that that’s not how it works.
Then there’s the real problem–she attaches value to that number.
She believes that her number is not right. That she’s not right because of it. She believes that if she could be different, her life would be better somehow.
She believes in this moment, as many of us, that the number defines her.
What do you believe when you get on the scale?
What do you want to believe?
Let me tell you what I want you to believe when you get on the scale: this is the gravitational pull on my body at this moment in time. That’s it. It is data. It is math.
I want you to believe even that it’s valuable data to get feedback on what’s happening with your body.
I want you to believe it’s also only one piece of data–that it’s not the whole picture. There’s other data to gather as well and this is one small piece. (other data includes body measurements, clothing fit, progress photos, sleep quality, stress level, etc.)
I want you to believe that it doesn’t say anything at all about your value as a human being.
I want you to weigh yourself frequently to get the data. What I don’t want you to do is to attach value to it such as “I’m not successful at this,” or “I’ll never be thin enough,” or “that number should be lower.”
The number on the scale is a circumstance.
It’s your thoughts about the number that are giving you the negative feelings. The scale doesn’t actually have that much power.
But you do. You have the power to create the thoughts you want to think?
Don’t believe you can change your thoughts? Book a free strategy session with me and I’ll show you how to do it!
