Breaking the Weigh In
Monday, June 9th, 2008
It’s a long holiday weekend here in Oz, so I slept in and had the pleasure of doing so next to my husband. Not having to deal with the alarm and having the husband home, it wasn’t until after I took a shower that I realized it is Monday. I dried myself with the towel and though, “Oh, Monday. That means weigh in.”
But as I got dressed and prepared to start work for the day (someday I’ll take a real holiday), I thought about how I have been feeling about losing weight lately. I thought about how I have been closer to just giving up completely, for good, than I have ever been. Yes, I’ve fallen off the wagon before, but never have I wanted to purposely just stop.
I also thought about an email I received over the weekend from my lovely friend Jenera. In the email, she said:
“I’ve taken breaks in weight loss (and life) before and it really helps. You might just need to take the next month to focus on YOU-not your body, just you. I know it helps me quite a bit. I think if you keep up with the exercise, still eat healthy, and have the hubby hide the scale, you might be able to refocus a bit and not be too hard on yourself. The fact that you’ve been sticking with the positive changes is a huge accomplishment!”
And she’s right. I have been so focused on numbers, pounds, losing weight, that I have lost focus on me, JM, the person inside. I have been slowly turning myself into someone who judges myself based on my looks instead of based on the beautiful person I know I am.
So for the entire month of June, I’m hiding the scale. Whether it turns out to be a bad or good thing in terms of pounds, I don’t care. I need to focus on me, take care of me, and remember why I started getting fit in the first place.

Another week and another weigh in. Weighing in this week after hitting the weights last week was not something I was looking forward to at all, but one must do what one must do, yes?
This weigh in is coming to you a little late, and I apologize for that. I do promise, though, that I weigh myself this morning. I just didn’t get the chance to write up the weigh in post. Things have been crazy stressful for me lately, but I’ll talk more about that later.
Hi all! Welcome back to Monday weigh in here on Finally Getting Fit. I didn’t weigh in last week because it was my first wedding anniversary, but now it’s time to face the music and see what kind of damage (if any) there is to deal with.
That’s right; I’m not weighing in today.
Hello and welcome back. Today is once again weigh in day and I felt a bit apathetic getting on to the scale this morning. Still, I like to weigh in at least once a week to keep a bit of an eye on myself.
Is it Monday already? I think the weekend went entirely too fast. Then again, there is a long weekend coming up, so I shouldn’t be complaining.