weighing yourself

Few notes on this:

1- do not weigh yourself early. If you are scheduling your weighing once a week, or every other, or once a month. do NOT weigh in early. You'll lessen the thrill when on your weighing day if you have lost, and you'll be disappointed if you haven't.

2- do NOT weigh yourself when you've got your period. Period. You carry around extra water weight, you don't think that bloated feeling is just in your head, do you?

4- weigh in on the same day and some time you measure yourself. That way if you haven't lost an ounce you can appreciate the inches you've lost without feeling like you've done something wrong concerning your weight. Subnote- weigh in in the morning, nekked. it's a plus to find out how many lbs are your clothes and NOT you. It's most accurate this way too.

3- If you do any of the above and you find yourself disappointed- talk yourself out of it!! "I'm doing fine!" tell it to yourself over and over to cancel out those feelings of disappointment.

4- if you find you're losing weight more slowly than before, weigh in less often. Those last 10 lbs takes their sweet time. They cling, baby! So give yourself more time to shed them.

5- Lastly, don't forget this is not about fitting your body into someone else's mold. This is about how good YOU feel about YOU. Not your boyfriend, and if he ain't impressed ... well that's another blog topic. So we're not looking to impress anyone but ourselves. Feel good being in the skin we've been given.

I'd like to quote a wonderful musician. "This is my body it's fine. It's where I spend the vast majority of my time. It's not perfect, but it's mine."

Children are in constant wonder at their bodies. "Look at me! Look at me!!"- that's our 5th baby doing yoga in the picture above. I need to be more like that. Appreciate more of what my body is capable of instead of deride myself for what it's not.

Cheers, all!