Bettering my relationship with the scale//developing an objective perspective of the scale
Metrics for those interested!
Sex : Female
Age : 19
Height : 163cm/5’4”
Weight : 142pds/64.4kg (as of august 2020)
Activity level : don’t know...weight train 4x a week (60 min)., HIIT 1x a week, and I generally get in 10,000 to 15,000 steps a day (I’m pretty active for a college student)
Warning : this post is long! Feel free to jump straight to the TLDR. Thank you in advance to those who reply!
Recently, I watched a video* from Blogilates regarding the scale and realized that we went through similar stages with our relationship to the scale. I’m currently at stage 3 (temporary healing stage). I’ve essentially ditched the scale and haven’t weighed myself since August (I’ve been tempted to do so). I have mixed feelings about this, but overall I feel a little bit better. Unfortunately, I still have this fear that I’ve gained an excessive amount of weight (purely fat) in the past few months and that weighing myself could’ve prevented that weight gain. (I know this is an irrational fear and I have a therapist to help me through this).
I want to get to the point at which I can see the scale as an objective measurement of health and not really care for it. I want to see the number as a data point, not a measurement of my worth/value.
This stage is essentially stage 4 (empowered relationship) in Cassey’s video. It’s a stage where you don’t define yourself by the scale and just see it as a data point, just like your height or heart rate.
I would love to get to stage 4 with the scale, but I don’t know where to begin. I know that some individuals just weighed themselves daily and learned to recognize the number as a data point (which is what I want), but I fear that I’ll begin to associate my self worth/value with the scale again.
TLDR; how do I develop an empowered relationship with the scale? + Any tips and/or tricks that you’ve used to get to this stage.
Thank you in advance!
*Video link for those interested - https://youtu.be/r4u2MNHC-3U (Stage 3 - 7:06, stage 4 - 9:43)
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