Gaining & Losing the Same 5 Pounds? WE ALL ARE!

This is super-dee-duper awesome. This amazing woman meticulously recorded her weight several times each day, over a week, along with other notes, to see and understand the swings.

How is it possible to gain and lose 4-5 pounds in a 24-hour period? It’s not by crash-dieting, not by detoxing all day, not by any other form of lose-weight-fast schemes out there.

It’s by being human, people.

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This experiment demonstrates the intricate and individualized science behind weight sensitivity, but can have significantly positive emotional and mental consequences for us all! Knowledge is power – it frees us from unnecessary anxiety, stress, disappointment, discouragement, and unease.

Yet another vote for throwing away that worthless tool.

http://www.loveyourbodyproject.org/#!How-I-Gained-4-Pounds-in-One-Day%E2%80%A6-Then-Lost-It-All-By-the-Next/c1fhr/568bc0000cf23ef0cf5d9b3d

You Are Perfect[ly Imperfect]

This is a quick read, but a little nugget of gold:

It is like when you really want a bag of chips. You say to yourself, "You can't have chips. They are bad for you. They have too many calories. They will make you fat"  You listen, then you go to the refrigerator and eat some carrot sticks, then some yogurt, then a piece of cheese, then an apple. None of these things satisfy the initial craving. SO..you end up with the chips anyway. Why not listen to your need in the first place?

Find your things. You will need certain things in your everyday life (my things include coffee, reading, lifting, running, time with friends, writing, daily salads), and you will need certain things in your max-stress life (my things include less running, less time with friends, more reading, potato chips).

And most of all, you need to forgive yourself for needing those things. They are simply what you need. There is no judgment.

http://www.loveyourbodyproject.org/#!Perfectly-Imperfect-Sound-Familiar/c1fhr/564227050cf21009be806611