August 14, 2008

Don0t Battle the Bathroom Scale: Weight Charts are Your Weight-loss Friend

window.document.getElementById(’post-122′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;I0ve witnessed people who have an insane relationship with the bathroom scale and weight charts. When I used to work for a weight-loss center, the weigh-in ritual would often include shedding shoes, belts, and even the tiniest of earrings. One woman would even insist on taking off her pants. As I protested0this was a public place and men and kids could walk in at any moment0she would be unzipping down to her skivvies.
Is your bathroom scale and weight chart a friend or foe? Even for those who are successfully losing weight, or who are at an ideal weight, there are often feelings of dread and angst as they step on the bathroom scale, and keeping a weight chart is the furthest thing from their mind.
It is important to calm our relationship with our bathroom scale and welcome a weight chart0a running tally of body weight on specific dates0into our lives. This means calming our feelings about our weight and then reprogramming the messages that would have us judge ourselves according to how much we weigh on any given day.
Normalizing our relationship with the bathroom scale and keeping a weight chart is important because, if used correctly, […]

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