Weighing in

As was previously established, I don't want to focus on my weight as a measurement of how well I am doing in becoming healthier, but I also want to track my weight for obvious reasons. So....how often should I weigh myself?? I don't want to do it too frequently (which I am currently doing) because the scale has a way of shifting my attitude and confidence in a single moment. When the number on a scale becomes the only indicator of progress, what happens when there is no change on that scale? Or, worse yet, when that number goes up?? Even when I've been eating salad so much that I'm turning green. It becomes more difficult for me to believe in the value of the healthy choices I'm making. Sometimes, it will send me into a downward spiral of poor eating because "it doesn't matter anyway". It doesn't matter that I have more energy, that my skin looks better, that I have less gas...the number on the scale trumps all of these when I weigh myself frequently.

So....once a month?? And I still haven't decided if I'll be sharing my weight with the blog, but I will be posting pictures soon. I'd like to do that once a month to show any changes in my body that might be happening.

Next up....My Story...how I came to be an overweight chiropractor, and my plans for a healthier me.

Jeans....grrrr

Another reminder that I must become healthier...just got a hole in the only pair of jeans that fit me well, and in a place where they cannot be worn again :( All of my other jeans are one size smaller, and I have no money to buy a new pair. Can we say "Motivation"???

I choose health over an ideal BMI

This is truly not a weight loss blog. Now don't get me wrong....I need to lose weight and I want to lose weight, but weight loss will not be my focus; but hopefully a natural "consequence" to the healthy adjustments I make in my everyday life. Weight loss can happen in a very unhealthy way - starvation, restricting entire food groups - that leads to a poor state of health although to others the person looks "healthier" because they are thinner. So health will be the focus, rather than a number on a scale. Having said that so adamantly, I am noticing the words "weight" and "loss/lose" have been used several times in only the first two sentences of this blog that isn't about weight loss.

But now that that's out of the way, here is what this blog will be....a conversation about an overweight female chiropractor's journey to a healthier state of being, as she uses the tools that she gained during grad school. Yes, I am an overweight chiropractor! Shocking, I know, because chiropractors are supposed to be the healthy ones. Believe me when I tell you that this has added more than a little stress to my life as a chiropractor.

Weight loss programs are often started on a Monday. Typically, the weekend before said Monday is loaded with several "last meals"....that ice cream sundae you've been wanting?? Better get that in before the diet starts because you'll never be able to have one again!! In planning this blog, I initially wanted to start it at the New Year (the grandfather of all Mondays), but decided against it because THIS IS NOT A WEIGHT LOSS BLOG!! And so it begins today...being more conscious about what I am putting into my mouth, and making the decision to move rather than sit. Now, granted, today is a Monday, but there were no "last meals" this weekend because if I truly want a sundae, I will get one. But in exchange, I'll move a little more and eat a little less.

Until next time...