NON SCALE VICTORIES
For the next 12 weeks I will NOT be weighing in as I joined a challenge that has this as one of the requirements. When I was invited to join it I thought: "GREAT!Exactly what I need to kick me back into gear!" I believe *completely* that with focus on *doing* what is required, results anticipated *will* AUTOMATICALLY follow that course, so to NOT weigh in didn't seem to be an issue for me. I actually liked the thought of using the 12 weeks of no weigh-ins as "training for maintenance",meaning when I reach my ideal target weight & have successfully maintained it for, say, half a yr or so, I wont be using the scale anymore. Then when this weeks weigh-in started approaching I FREAKED!
"I *need* the scale! It helps me stay motivated, regardless of its number displayed. When its UP, it is a motivator for me to be more mindful at being diligent, in making sure I *really am* DOING what I should be doing. And when it goes DOWN, it is a motivator to KEEP DOING, what I obviously am doing, to make it go down. BUT...not weighing...the motivation will *disappear*!" I instantly thought of all the reasons why I should NOT continue the challenge.(Read my Journal- WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS WEEKS CHALLENGE)
Happily I am a person who lets "my yes,mean yes" & I managed to regain my senses.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM FREAKING OUT
I realize that I am not as healthy as I want to be. I realize that I am not the size or shape I want to be. However, these things can be changed, to what I want them to be, by what *I* do or dont do. This is not "news".
What I do or don't do can be changed by what *I* THINK.This,too,is not "news".
What IS "news",is that *I* THINK,*I* NEED,a number,up or down, to MOTIVATE me! WOW!!! THAT is not good.
What happens,to my motivation, when I have successfully lost my excess weight & instead of having a body laden with fat I have a strong,toned, muscular body?! Muscle weighs MORE than fat.
It was obvious to me that my mind was playing tricks on me,which caused me to freak out,so *I* took control(which I *always* had) & changed my wrong thinking (that I need the scale for motivation)QUICKLY to right thinking...
"Motivation is what gets you started.Habit is what keeps you going."--Jim Rohn
I end this Journal Entry with some words from James Allen:
"A man only begins to be a man when he *ceases to whine & revile*,& commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.
And as he *adapts his mind* to that regulating factor,he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition & builds himself up in *strong & noble thoughts*,ceases to kick against circumstances,but begins to *use them as aids of his more rapid progress*,& as means of discovering the hidden powers & possibilities within himself."