Come to the scale full, or leave empty.
Stepping on the scale when you’re trying to lose weight is like playing an emotional game of Russian Roulette with your blubber.
If the number on the scale goes down, you’re excited. And not just regular excited, but Rick-James-Fuck-Yo-Couch excited.
This “victory” is typically followed by some kind of celebration, sometimes in food form.
If the number on the scale goes up, you’re crushed. And not just regular crushed, but Crawling-In-My-Skin-These-Wounds-They-Will-Not-Heal crushed.
Why is this? Let’s explore.
If you look at the clock and it says a certain time, do you feel a stirring in your loins? Unless it’s 4:20 on 4/20, probably not.
Then why do you react to the number on the scale any differently?
Because you’re trying to GET something from the scale.
There’s nothing right or wrong about this fact. Nothing good or bad. The problem only arises when you’re determined to get something from it that it can’t provide.
Here’s what you can get from a scale: how much you weigh on Earth at the moment.
Here’s what you can’t get from a scale: acceptance, pride, victory, worth, whether or not you’re a “good” or “bad” person, judgement, love, compassion. Anything.
If you go to McDonald’s looking for the most delicious fast food fry known to mankind, you’re in luck.
If you go to McDonald’s looking for a filet mignon and Don Perignon, you’re screwed.
Trying to get anything other than what you weigh from the scale is the equivalent of trying to get water from a stone, or driving with your butthole. Go for if you want, but be ready to suffer.
Don’t take my word on any of this. Truth check it against your own life experience.
If you allow the scale to determine how to feel good about yourself, you better be ready to allow it to make you feel bad about yourself too. You can’t get the titty without the nipple, son!
Here’s a fun game to try: put a scale somewhere you’ll see it multiple times per day, then step on it every time you see it. With this much exposure, you’ll either cling deeper to playing the scale-meaning game, or you’ll realize how goofy of a game you’re playing and you naturally stop.
If these words have inspired any change in your behavior and you naturally drop the need to attach meaning to the number on the scale, cool.
If you’re a big fan of having your emotions played with, cool. By all means keep playing the scale game.
A tool should always benefit its master. The moment that it doesn’t, the tool is no longer serving its purpose, and the master instead becomes a slave.
Come to the scale full, or leave empty.
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