I may be going about this in a different way than most.
I actually do not know how much I weigh. The last time I checked it was probably March and I weighed 227lbs.
I could be more or I could be less by now. I have no idea though.
I don't own a scale.
I've contempleted buying one at a thrift store recently (because we just can't afford a new one--hell we can't afford a used one now.) But I realized that would make me obsess about the number.
Its just a number though. Everyone has one and it's different at different times of the day.
I've thought about using a tape measure to figure out if I'm losing inches. But that's just more numbers to obsess over.
So I'm going to try and just do this based on how I am feeling, based on my energy level, based on how I look in the mirror, based on how my clothes fit--you know, when I can break up with the X.
The good news is that I've gotten Batman on board with myfitnesspal.com. I think he enjoys seeing the numbers (hahaha) add up and figuring out how to make better choices. He's a little surprised that he has to eat more than I do--just about 500 more per day than me. He's also surprised at how difficult it is to get that in in a healthy way and how easy it is to go over with unhealthy choices.
Regardless of what the scales say, what the tape measures say, what our clothes say--we're finally taking time to make our health a priority so we can be around for a lot more years together :)
I think you're definitely going about it the RIGHT way (choosing to be healthy over being a certain number). I too don't really know what I weighed when I made the decision to change my life (didn't have a scale either). I had a doctor's appt 3 months before my change and I weighed 163 lbs (at 5'2'') and the doctor called me "obese." I went home that day and sorta tried "diets" and figured that wasn't going to work for me...I ended up buying a scale to chart my progress and I did become obsessed (to the point I dropped down to 93 lbs and again finding myself "unhealthy"). It was has taken me a long time to not be dependent on the scale (I never should have bought it in the first place). I was weighing myself 5+ times a day (now do so about once a week). Such a liberating feeling to let it go.
ReplyDeleteI think my medical files probably say "morbidly obese" but my doctors haven't offered much in the way of help to become NOT morbidly obese. I hope what I am doing works!
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