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Going for Broke!
How about a “Bathroom Scale Challenge?” Will you take the challenge? 🙂 More importantly, do you sense that God may be inviting you to do so?
For two weeks, will you have a friend or family member take your scale and hide it (when I did this, my husband took it to his office)?
But first…evaluate how you feel about the thought of being without the scale for two weeks. Ask God to show you if these feelings need dealing with! If you want to scream “NOOOOoooo!!!” and grab your scale to your chest, for instance, perhaps there is something that needs dealing with! LOL! I know how you feel! I have been there!
I hope that my friend, Kim, will weigh in (pun intended) on this subject and share with you all what was going on with me in 2008 that made her feel she needed to FLAT OUT TAKE IT FROM ME! She did, too! I begrudgingly gave it to her but was SO glad that I did! It wasn’t until about a year ago that my husband brought a scale back into the house. Even so, I have to be ever vigilant not to look to the scale for approval. With our weight loss bible study under way and my renewing my mind daily (or almost) about 0 to 5 eating being a good, godly, delightful boundary that can thrill my heart :-), I have released some weight and would like a bit more gone. I have to be really cautious that I don’t revert back to the way of thinking that got me into as much trouble as overeating.
So, what say you? Can you release your hold on the bathroom scale and focus, instead, on the hunger scale (which is what Thin Within refers to the hunger numbers as)? Stand on the promises of God in scripture instead of that hunk of plastic, springs, whateverelsewithanarbitrarynumber? 🙂
Will you take the challenge? What do you need to renew your mind about as you do?
Let us hold you accountable here if you don’t have an accountability partner yet!
I want to take the challenge!!
Do it, Adriane!
Oh my gosh Heidi, I soooo remember, and it is difficult at first not having that validation, or confirmation that I am listening correctly to my God given signals of hunger and satisifaction. I would allow that stupid scale to affect my whole day, and mood if it did not reflect what I wanted it to. The truth is when I depend on the scale there is an element of denial and deception going on for me. It is not healthy for this girl. Maybe once a week is a good compromise. Having said this I must admit that I had a scale relapse, and its back in the bathroom, but it moving out tonight, because I do not have the self-control not to step on it. Huggzzz Heidi. .
Kim…do you remember what I was doing when you threw down the gauntlet and challenged me to give you my scale? LOL! I am so thankful that you were bold and courageous enough to do that. It made a difference. Maybe I should do the same for you now? 🙂
I want to join this 2 week challenge. So far today I have just focused on praying and on being obedient to hunger fullness. One day at a time. The scales have had too much of a hold on me too.
I just asked my husband to hold me accountable for the next 2 weeks.. 🙂
Ask him to take the scale and hide it! 🙂
I removed the scale 2 years ago, but I still try to judge every day if I am getting smaller by looking in the mirror. I first focus on the parts I don’t like – my eyes go straight to my “problem” areas. It often leaves me frustrated – I know this isn’t healthy, so I am challenging myself in a different way than the scale. I will look in the mirror for hair, makeup, clothes, but not try to assess my body size. If I drift to the “old ways,” I will turn to the Lord and praise him – praise fest, thank Him for making me “wonderfully and fearfully,” etc. So far, so good – dressed this am without judgement!
Post it notes all over the mirror obscuring the “complete view” with verses like Psalm 139 “I am fearfully and wonderfully made” and other similar verses to remind you that God looks at the heart! 🙂 Or statements that you use for renewing your mind could be written on post it notes and pasted on the mirror. 🙂 Just a thought! LOL!
Have been AWOL for a while and saw today the info about the new study. My question is: Will it be confusing if you have not been all the way through the original “Thin Within” book? On another note, went to the Dr. last week and trust me when I say I did NOT want to get on that scale! I usually don’t get that urge until I’ve been working at trying to lose for a few weeks and think I should really be seeing some progress.
Hi, Beth. I don’t think it will be confusing. I plan to introduce the Keys to Conscious Eating at the onset so that people are familiar with them. We will refer to primary boundaries and secondary boundaries and renewing our minds as we have been previously. The HEAL book is intended to be all inclusive, so I don’t think it will be challenging to follow Thin Within as we do it. It is co-authored by Judy Halliday and her influence is seen throughout the pages. It is a Thin Within book for younger women, but I thought we could do it because it is a shorter study than the full workbook and cheaper going from a free study. Have I told you too much? LOL!
I will pray to be able to focus on obedience to God today and use the hunger scale instead of the scale to weigh. I enjoyed the e mail today, Heidi. Thanks for all you do.
Norma, thank YOU for the classes you lead and the Facebook group, too! You do so very much to support Thin Within participants. I appreciate you.
What a great challenge! I know the scale was a huge issue for me at times, but it’s less of an issue now. I would rather fit into my clothes comfortably than weight a certain number. When I go to the doc I don’t even look at the scale and I don’t ask. I even did that when I was pregnant. I just didn’t want to know.
Heidi, I don’t remember exactly what you were doing, but I do recall you were going through physical challeneges that fought against your consistent 0 to 5 eating. When the scale is not reflecting what we are doing emotionally and spiritually it messess with us terribly. There are going to be times when our bodies hold on to weight or water weight for a while, for all kinds of reason. Its easy for me to get into an all or nothing state, and get frustrated with the lack of results. Think that God is not rewarding me for my good efforts but the bottom line is regardless if I loose weight or not, eating when I am hungry and stopping when I am satisfied is where I find peace. I am not stuffing emotions and I am living in the present much more.
Yeah maybe you should come over and pick up my scale… ugh.. wait… not yet… 😉
Kim…LOL! My 0 and 5 had changed drastically with the onset of menopause! OH MY WORD! What I could eat before, I couldn’t anymore and I was fighting against it something fierce! Coming on over now to grab that scale of yours! LOL!
A great challenge to stand next to God for protection and evaluation. God’s opinion is the one that matters. I can stay off the scale however, I will need to step on one somewhere to record weight loss to satisfy my medical insurance requirements.
Blessings, Joyce
Or give them a healthy guess. 😉
I am sure I will have a MD visit prior to the updated information is due. I will let her do it for me. I will be completely satisfied with my clothing looser. Also becoming more dependent on God will be the best result. 🙂
For me getting on the scale always leads me down a wrong path. Either I am happy and cheat or upset and want to give up. I, too, will stay off the scale and rely on how my clothes fit to let me know how I am doing as far as weight. More importantly I want to listen to my body and to the Holy Spirit and be faithful to 0 to 5 eating as well as to my secondary boundaries. Then, I trust that eventually I will be a comfortable weight. I believe this is a great challenge for us all. Thanks
There may be a time in the future when that isn’t the case. When my husband began to be concerned about his weight, he bought a scale. I started stepping on it every so often. It doesn’t have the pull on me it used to. But I still find that I want to keep my attitude in check by taking the challenge this week!