She tracked her progress with non-scale victories
Paluch started out weighing herself three or four times a day, but seeing her weight fluctuate wasn’t working for her — if her weight went up, she’d be tempted to skip dinner altogether.
Now she puts her scale away in a closet and only takes it out on Fridays for a weekly weight check. “Hiding the scale was the best decision I ever made,” she says.
Since she knew there would be weeks when her weight plateaued, she made a list of non-scale victories she wanted to achieve. She intentionally didn’t set timeframes for these goals, so she wouldn’t be disappointed if she didn’t reach them quickly. She’s achieved many of them and made progress toward even more:
- She no longer needs a CPAP to control sleep apnea.
- She’s on track to stop taking medications for blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol in September.
- She’s sleeping better, and that’s giving her more energy.
- She can sit with her legs crossed, which she hadn’t been able to do in about ten years.
- She can walk up the three or four flights of stairs to her favorite restaurant without stopping at the top of every flight to catch her breath.
- She can walk three miles in less than an hour.
- She’s looking forward to her next trip to Disney, where she’ll be able to ride the rides without feeling the safety bar pressing into her body.
When I looked at how much money I saved from not ordering, it blew my mind.
Melissa paluch
One of her non-scale victories had a surprising benefit. She had been ordering food five or six times a week, and she cut that back to once a week, cooking dinner at home instead. She saved all the money she had been spending on takeout, and she’s put away enough to pay for her family’s vacation at a beach house this summer. “When I looked…
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