The Bathroom Scales....

You know the feeling... Your feeling good, your looking good, you admire yourself in the mirror "not bad" you say to yourself, "hey Im looking fabulous!!" then you step onto the scales to affirm these great feelings.  You look down expecting to see a magic number that will tell you how good you are, how great you have been and when you look down those scales register another number!! Another number much higher than you expected!! You look again in disbelief are they right you wonder and start to shift your weight from side to side hoping and praying the number will shift down, but it doesn't.  So you step off and pick the scales up and put them on the other side of the bathroom, you step gingerly on again, holding your breath, you look down!! Arrrghh NO! they still register the same number.  "Rubbish" you cry, this cant be right and you pick the scales up and give them a good shake, if they are non digital you may start to fiddle with the dial.  The you put them down and have a genius idea, you sit on the toilet and pee - yes that will do it, that will bring the number down!! So you take the scales outside the bathroom and you put them on the floor in the hall, you stand on again holding your breath, oh!! no holding your breath may make the scales register higher so you blow all your breath out and look down... NO, NO, NO the say the same!! This just cannot be right.  You step off the scales with you head hanging low, your self esteem plummeting faster than the speed of light.  You feel awful, you have failed, you feel like crying!!! What a way to start your day, you just want to crawl back into bed.

Beautiful creatures.... Does this sound familiar?  How much of your self worth and self esteem do you put into a chunk of metal with a dial that sits on your bathroom floor?  How can you let an innate object like the bathroom scales tell YOU how to feel?  Ive been here, done it and got the t-shirt.  Its horrible we put so much emphasis on the scales to register how virtuous we have been and to let us know whether we have been good or bad!

Wake up and smell the coffee!!!! This is absolutely ridiculous.  There are so many other ways for us to ascertain that we feel great.   We will only ever feel sensational when we feel good from the inside out.  When you know that you are taking care of yourself on a daily basis to the best of your abilities with the resources you have and you make this your life's journey then this is the only sensible, intelligent option for real women to feel great about themselves.  Whenever we externalise anything to make us feel good about ourselves this is always going to end up in tears.

Start to believe in yourself, start caring and nourishing your body, mind and soul.  Make it your number one priority, you only have one life and you only have one body.  Treat your body as a temple, stop relying on scales to tell you that you are good or bad.  I dare you to throw them out and liberate yourselves from this chunk of metal.