Here’s The Skinny On The Scale
Submitted by Fit and Female Blog
Each and every morning millions of women across America perform a secret masochistic tribal ritual. We approach The Oracle — and we ask that the truth be revealed.
We disrobe.
We stand naked before it.
We confront the unpleasant reality.
And then… if The Oracle declares that we have sinned — we begin the atonement process.
We spend the rest of the day performing the sacred acts of mental self-flagellation.
“I am a big fat pig, I am a big fat pig, I am a big fat pig…”
In other words, we step on the bathroom scale — and then we terrorize ourselves for the rest of the day by the numbers we see there.
Why is it that so many of us feel compelled to get on the scale each and every morning?
Moreover, why do we beat ourselves up when the numbers on the dial don’t match the numbers that we have in our heads? Especially when the numbers that we have in our heads are usually numbers that appeared once on our wedding day, when we were a nervous wreck from the all the stress and coming off of a four-day bout with a stomach flu.
Usually they are numbers that we haven’t actually seen in years, they aren’t “real numbers” — yet some part of us still expects them to be there. Fat chance of that.
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