So Much Easier Than I Thought

[Guest guest]

I have been working out with a personal trainer 1 or 2 times per week for about

two years now. When I started with her, I told her that my goal was to lose

weight. So we usually weigh every week to track my progress. For the last

year, I've had pretty much zero progress, and bless her heart, she doesn't make

me feel bad about that (I do a pretty good job of that on my own) but she does

keep encouraging me to stick to my diet to have more steady loss.

So, since starting IE, I have been reluctant to tell her what I was doing and

that I wanted to stop weighing, but I decided that today I had to do it. I was

very nervous about her reaction. Then when I got there this morning (it's a

*very* small gym just for personal training and I'm usually the only one there

when I go on Saturday mornings), she had another client there that she was

finishing with, then one of the other trainers came in. So, I wanted to have

this personal conversation with her, but all of a sudden there are all these

other people around! Argh! I debated just not saying anything, but I decided

to stick to my guns.

So, we usually weigh after my warm up. And when I was done, I said to her " I've

made a decision. " And she says, " What's that? " And I say, " I'm really

frustrated with the scale right now and I don't want to weigh anymore. I need a

moratorium on the scale. " And she says. " Okay. That's your choice. If the

scale doesn't make you feel good, we don't need to do it. "

What? That's it? God bless her. All that angst for nothing. Amazing how we

come up with all these ways to torture ourselves and it's all in our own head!

Josie