It is the beginning of a new week. As I sit here, working from home, I look out the window and it feels that spring has finally sprung.
I haven't taken the time to weight myself yet because I woke up and jumped into work straight away but it got me thinking about scales. I was scrolling through TikTok last night and came across a fitness coach that talked about how scales are a tool, and you shouldn't use them if they discourage you or add stress to your body. I couldn't agree more.
The number on a scale is just a number, it does not define you or tell you your potential. It tells you how you should eat. I look at the number on the scale in one way only, I use it to tell me how much protein I should be eating every day. That is it. I look in the mirror and see all the issues with my body, I don't need a scale to tell me I'm doing stuff wrong. All I need a scale for is to tell me what I should be eating and that is it.
My advice: If you get too caught up in reading the numbers on a scale that you no longer take care of you, then you probably shouldn't be using the scale. I'm sorry to be so brutally honest but that is the way I roll sometimes.
So above I mentioned that I use the scale to help me decide what to eat during the week. This is how:
I look at my body weight.
I write that number down (for last week I was 233 lbs of love btw).
I multiply that number by 0.7 (233 * 0.7 = 163.1)
That new number is my low end for protein intake, the high end is my body weight.
I write that number down (for last week I was 233 lbs of love btw).
I multiply that number by 0.7 (233 * 0.7 = 163.1)
That new number is my low end for protein intake, the high end is my body weight.
So for last week my goals for protein intake was between 163 grams and 233 grams of protein.
That is what I use a scale for, nothing more nothing less. Unless you are an athlete that has to weigh a certain amount in order to compete there is no reason to look at the scale. Why? Because it is just a number you fools.
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