You know the feeling. You’ve been dieting. You got on the scale at home or at a meeting and you’ve lost a pound or two or five. You walk away from the scale and out of the building and you feel fantastic. The sun is a little brighter. The breeze is a little balmier. Everyone on the street is checking out your fine, fine self.
If you know that feeling, you probably also know the opposite feeling. You got on the scale at home or at a meeting and you’ve gained a half of a pound, or two or five. You walk out of the building and the sky is gray, and threatening rain. A cold wind makes your bad hair day more pronounced. No one on the street looks at you, except to scowl.
Other than weather conditions, what really makes the difference between the two types of days mentioned above? Here’s a hint: it has nothing to do with the number on the scale.
Too often we let the scale control us. We gain weight and feel terrible, worthless, unattractive, disliked, and we lose weight and suddenly feel the opposite of those things.
But this pattern is not innate. Allowing the scale to determine how we feel about ourselves is actually a choice. The way to reverse this choice is to make a new one.
Choose, instead, to feel fantastic about yourself every day. Pick a day from your past when you were feeling stupendously attractive and fabulous. Picture that day, what you did and, most importantly, how you felt. Make the choice to recreate that feeling for yourself every day. I recommend doing this first thing in the morning and remembering to carry it with you all day. Act as if you are the most attractive person on Earth. Even if it feels like a lie at first, stick with it and keep recreating that feeling for yourself. You will attract more and more experiences that confirm that belief. That breeze may even get balmier.
I guarantee that if you keep this practice up, after a while, you’ll forget where you keep that scale.