ED Habits To Break – Weighing Yourself Every Other Day

This has probably become a habit for some of us, weighing yourself every day. You can’t deny that your life had been ruled by the numbers that appear on that machine. If the number was lower than expected – your mood would have been great for the whole day. If it was higher than expected – you would be upset and for the rest of your day you would be troubled over those digits that you saw in the morning.

This is obviously a very unhealthy relationship with weight. We all know weight fluctuates throughout the day, and also that you won’t be the exact same weight every day of the week; but the ED voice in our head doesn't buy our “COMMON SENSE KNOWLEDGE” and tells you otherwise.

To recover of course we need to have a healthy relationship with our weights. Here are some things about weight that I found online that I found useful in changing our mindsets towards the number on the scale!

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1. MUSCLE IS DENSER THAN FATS 

Yes i know this is so cliche. But really! Fat LOOKS "more" than muscles because fatty tissure are jello-like while muscles are firmer than fats. Thus for the same "size" of fats and muscles, muscles are actually heavier! So if you wanna be fit  and tone those muscles, get a nice figure, I don't think a very very low weight is gonna be very possible! Toned looks > weight, because after all NO ONE WILL KNOW THAT NUMBER UNLESS YOU TELL THEM, BUT PEOPLE CAN SEE TONED MUSCLES ;) 



2. THE STOMACH IS CAPABLE OF CONTAINING UP TO 25 POUND OF UNDIGESTED FOOD! 

Ok 25 pounds is rare but does happen in like constipated people, sometimes even more than 25 pounds... But you get my point; you don't have X-ray eyes to look if your stomach has digested the food and if the nutrients have been absorbed by the body yet!



3. WATER RETENTION CAN CAUSE US TO GAIN A FEW KILOS

Water retention is due to too much salt intake. Water retention can also happen after exercising. This is because your body needs to replenish the water in your body thus whatever you drink will be "clung on to tightly" by your body. And if you didn't know, 1ml of water is 1g, so if you drank 1 liter of water you'd weigh 1kg more!



4. LOOK AT THESE WOMEN YOU'D NEVER HAVE GUESSED THEIR WEIGHTS!

        This woman in yellow is 176 pounds, aka 79.8kg.

 

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This Girl in white is 218 pounds! That's close to 100kg!          

 

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       The Woman beside the horse is 157 pounds! Which is 71.2kg! 

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This Woman looks toned doesn't she! She weighs 190 pounds (86kg)! 

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         This girl is 133 pounds, aka 60.3 kg!

 

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[ photos are NOT mine, cr: http://www.mybodygallery.com/photos-24037-body-shape.htm?StartAt=10#.VBBkgPm1Zp4 ]

 

 

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Now do you see, weight is merely a number! No one is going to ask you "How much do you weigh?" during self introductions, why let that number control you? It is but a number :)