The Power of the Scale

Over the years my fitness journey has been an all or nothing. I was either all in and restricting food way more than I am ever comfortable with or eating an entire bag of chips in one sitting. There was no middle for me. I have always heard different fitness/health professionals say “everything in moderation.”  Well this chick did not really understand moderation. In my head it made sense, but I didn’t know how or what that looked like. Was moderation an entire bag of chips today and nothing the rest of the week, or was it some today and some tomorrow, and some the next day?

Last year this time I was working the Weight Watchers point system. I had done WW before and it was familiar to me. WW was comfortable like an old pair of jeans that you knew always fit. But, I dreaded the weigh in. I hated the feeling of walking in to WW knowing that I gained weight that week, but I had felt like I had done all the right things. Or I had weeks where I thought that if I didn’t log food into my tracker that it wouldn’t matter. Well, think about that for a second. Does my ass really not log the calories eaten because I didn’t put it in my tracker?