Don't live by the scale

When you start on your health or fitness journey, so often people talk about how much weight you need to lose. 

I would love to see it become less about the weight and more about the person, the self, the whole being; and what you have to GAIN. 

Weight loss and nutrition do not always go hand-in-hand. 

Weight loss and fitness do not always go hand-in-hand. 

Weight loss and health, do not always go hand-in-hand. 

Health, fitness, and nutrition can result in weight loss but they can also result in weight gain, which can be the healthy result and absolutely okay. 

That could be so mentally hard, mentally destabilising. It is so ingrained in us to think that we need to be thinner, weigh less, have a certain body type to be able to be considered fit and healthy. 

And that is just wrong. 

We have been trained to think that it is only a certain way we can look or present ourselves in order to be fit and healthy and we need to re learn because that is not truth. Sometimes the scale goes up when we're getting healthy. Sometimes the scale won't change when were getting healthy. Sometimes we need to ignore the scale because it is only a tool to be used it is not something to live by. 

Do not live by the scale, you will only drive yourself into fits of unhealthy choices to try to control that number on the scale. That number fluctuates on an hourly basis through the day, and that's OK. That is normal because our bodies are not meant to remain the same number. We are not a number, we are a person with feelings and cravings and needs.

Re learning, though, is so hard when it is so ingrained in us from an early age and so much still ingrained in the media we consume on a daily basis. But there are so many that are now out there who are trying to shout from the rooftops the truth of how humans should live to be able to live a healthy life. A healthy life is one of balance between "good foods" and "bad foods". Choosing whether to have vegetables or deserts is not something that should to be associated with guilt. Guilt does not build character, guilt does not build a good relationship with anything, human or food.

A healthy, balanced life is one where you can find joy in your everyday. Finding ways to move your body that makes you happy. That movement does not mean exercise if exercise makes you angry. It could be through walking, it can be through dance, it can be through gardening, it can be through anything that brings you joy. A balanced life, a healthy life, is one where you eat food to nourish your body, to fuel your body's needs and still find joy and happiness in what you eat. A healthy life is one where you take your mental health into consideration. It's where you realise that foods you fuel your body with effect your mood, were you know that eating too much of a certain type of food may throw off those hormones because everything is connected. 

Positivity breeds positivity. 

Negativity breeds negativity. 

When seeking a healthy way of life, and you start getting wrapped up in numbers, take a step back. 

Realize that the numbers are only tools, they are not YOU, they are not reality, they do not define you. 

Don't live by the scale, live by what brings you joy. Joy in movement. Joy in your head and heart. Joy in nourishing your body with good food. 

Live for you, not by the scale.  ♡