Sunday Story...Weigh No More

I have had several conversations lately about weight…about what a healthy weight is or whether or not you are losing weight, or losing enough weight, or whatever. It is time to get off that bus. What you weigh is not important. The number that pops up on the scale is just a number. It has absolutely no meaning until you assign it meaning. 125#, 150#, 200# just don’t matter. Here is what matters:

YOUR HEALTH

The only thing that matters is your health. I see skinny people who are both healthy and unhealthy. I see big people who are health and unhealthy. If I am standing next to someone who weighs the same as I do it doesn’t necessarily follow that one of us is healthy and the other isn’t.

If your nutrition is dialed in according to your activity level, age, and physical capabilities then your weight will take care of itself. If you change your eating habits, if you eat the right portions of food, if you eat food that serves your health not your dis-ease, then your weight will right itself.

The deal is simple…most people eat too much (doesn’t matter if it is good or not too much is too much), most people eat the wrong food, and most people have sick or addicted food patterns that are inhibiting their health. It is not that they weigh too much (or too little) it is that their weight does not serve their health.

So, the questions to ask yourself are these.
How do you feel when:
You get up (in the morning or from the chair)?
You finish eating (a meal, or a snack or a feast)?
You go to the bathroom (we all do it)?
You exercise (I mean really exercise hard enough to drip sweat and think you might pass out or something)?
You need to walk or run in a hurry (catching a plane or trying to be on time)?
You get undressed and look in the mirror (be honest, take a good hard look all the way around)?
You go to the Doctor (and get weighed in public, poked and prodded)?
You look down at your feet (you can see them)?
You compare yourself to the you of a few years ago (are you better off now than you were 4 years ago)?

Stop worrying about what you weigh. Worry about how your clothes fit…are you getting into smaller sizes? Worry about how you are moving…are you moving easier, with less pain, stronger and faster? Worry about your health markers…is your blood pressure down, your cholesterol in a healthy range, you pulse slower? Worry about how you feel in your body after you eat…are you comfortable or bloated, is your mind clear or cloudy, are you energized or tired? These are the real questions, not whether you weigh 120# or 125#.

So step away from the scale and Weigh no more. Buy new clothes because the old ones don’t fit anymore. Feel energized and happier because the food you are eating is fueling your body and mind they way they were meant to be fed. Workout and play with joy and abandon. Have fun eating!

Namaste
John
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