Friendly Weight Scales
Weight Scales are your Friends
“Weight scales are not your friend,” a colleague told me.
Okay but that is kind of the point to my new diet—non-diet branded as the Freedom Diet. It’s more of a lifestyle promulgated with humor, so Freedom Diet is more of an open-ended life experience thingy.
The value of Freedom Diet goes way beyond losing a few pounds or discovering an exercise routine that works. Freedom Diet is health and wellness for sure but also a social meme and a tech tool—even a career goal to learn logic and efficiency.
Humor makes everything easier
And did I mention humor? Freedom Diet trains all to laugh in the face of adversity or at the very least have fun discovering life’s little secrets.
So, scales are not always friendly. Weight scales may be intimidating or look scary. But trust me, you will quickly overpower the nemesis and become master of the scales with Freedom Diet.
Dieting? Try Something New – The Freedom Diet
And now for a sneak peek. The Freedom Diet is coming into focus with a startup series of blogs. Check it out at www.freedomdiet.com. An extract on ‘friendly’ weight scales follows.
Weight Scales are Your Friends
One option is to never weigh yourself. If you’re so secure in your lifestyle and the universe acknowledges same, then you have achieved Freedom Diet nirvana.
Another option is to make your weigh-ins something you look forward to doing. Seriously, I could not wait to jump on the scales.
The trick for me was to associate the scales to an important element—exercise. And in my case the gym. Here’s what worked for me.
Tips & Tricks: Weigh-In at the Gym
I didn’t own bathroom scales and really got a kick out of weighing in—after my workout—at the gym. The triple-beam scales typically showed a loss of a quarter pound a day. But when it didn’t, no sweat. Because I had just worked out and sweat a bunch!
When you achieve cognitive diet freedom—I’ll explain later—you know you’ve lost or maintained and want to memorialize it via weight scales.
Other Options
Of course, you can decide other routines or non-routines. Now, I have killer LED scales and weigh myself once in the morning and whenever I’m curious.
Running in the summer heat of Houston taught me you cold lose 4 or 5 pounds of water weight running. While doing a combo of Atkins and Keto, I learned that bananas kept me from cramping but every day I ate a banana, I maintained rather than lost a quarter pound of weight. Side note: if it hurts when you do something, stop doing it! Therefore, I ate half a banana and froze the rest.
Told you Freedom Diet was flex.
Wishing you fun and success. More soon!
- Edward Draper, author of “Who Iced Santa?” and “Breaking Truth“
