Saturday Fatter Day

Hi Dear Readers!

I hope this blog post finds you and brings you joy, insight, or action steps for defeating the Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs).

It's Saturday. And I'm fatter today. A pound fatter. That being said, I am not overly attached to the feedback from our bathroom scale. I am all about PROCESS GOALS, and you will likely be all about them too after you finish reading this post.

The bathroom scale reflects a metric. I am working toward my ideal body weight of 185 pounds. I weigh about 17 pounds over that, as of this morning. If I were overly attached to what the bathroom scale tells me, I would feel like a failure that my weight went up a pound, instead of down. In fact, I would always feel like a failure every time I got on the scale and found my weight was not at the ideal. Metrics like weight put you in a pessimistic failure mindset and should be disenfranchised from your life.

Instead, focus on PROCESS. A process is something you engage in consistently that is intended to move you toward your goal. When you focus on a process, you are in a success mindset, because every time you follow through on your process, that's a win, regardless of what the metrics are saying. My weight loss process is to eat a lower calorie whole food, plant based diet, exercise daily, and avoid stress and toxicity (which increase cortisol in the body, a hormone linked to weight gain). It's an achievable process and I follow it most days of the week. When I end the day and can check all the boxes of my process, I feel great. It's a success. Yesterday, I did not follow my process fully (I ate more calories than I burned with exercise). So, I fully expected the scale to reflect some weight gain. Thus, when the scale moved in the wrong direction from my weight goal, I understood exactly why. And it actually reinforced that my process is a good one. When I follow it compliantly, my weight consistently goes down. And even if I get derailed from my process from time to time, the general trend is toward achievement of my ideal weight goal (e.g., six steps forward, one step back).

I have also linked my process to the demise of the DFUs. That motivates me to keep moving forward, whether or not the weight loss actually contributes to reducing the number of DFUs in the world. That strategy falls more into the category of a "Jedi Mind Trick." But whatever works.

Fin.