Tool, Not a Trigger

 This week I was watching a random youtube video and I heard some great advice that I would like to share with you. The lady said: 

Use the scales as a tool, not a trigger. 

What great advice!! In the past I allowed the scales to be a trigger. A trigger as permission to eat more or a trigger to give up altogether. This week has been a week in which it could have been very easy to allow the scales to trigger me to give up. But thankfully I am a different person now. I don't allow set backs to deter me from where I am going and what I am doing. 

Last Friday at my official weigh in for the week - I was down a couple of pounds from the week before. Yay!! Then I had a higher sodium lunch and an even higher sodium supper (I had made a soup that used Tamari and it is HIGH in sodium- I didn't realize it at the time because it is something I had not used before) So the next morning when I did my daily weigh in I was up almost 4 pound. Boy, was I discouraged. Well, I just got back to doing what I know I need to be doing. By today - I was down a bit but still up since last Fridays weigh in. I could let it discourage me right into giving up but I did not. What I did is evaluated the week. It was a rough week. Because my numbness and tingling don't seem to be improving, in fact, it feels like it is getting worse. So the Chiropractor ordered an MRI. Well, our insurance denied it so I had to pay for it. That was awfully stressful. Then the stress of the MRI. I don't like to be in confined spaces. And when I got there not only did I find out that I would in fact be in the tube - I also found out that I had to take off ALL my clothes and wear scrubs. :( ugh...I have been having issues with sleeping too. It's probably due to menopause. So, I realized that there were reasons that the weight was up. And I just have to keep doing the best I can do.  

So the scales can be a good tool to keep track of what is going on. But we can't depend on it so heavily that we are thrown off course when things don't go our way. So what I weighed myself and my weight was up a bit - I said to myself - you didn't deserve that. And went on with my day like I normally would. The scales are a tool. I won't let them have the power to be a trigger any more.