Sometimes I feel like I'm not unhappy with how I look. I mean, I am, but occasionally, I'll think "I look pretty damn good today. My stomach isn't poking out and these jeans are slimming and I can see my collarbones/wrist bones. But the scale always has the power to take that away. Even if I feel like I look halfway decent, the number tells a different story.
Why is the number so important?
A friend asked me if I thought skinnier and bonier was prettier. I said of course it wasn't, but it was better, because that means the number is lower. Of course being all bones isn't pretty, but it's better because the number is all that counts.
When I measure my waist and hips and thighs and butt and chest and wrist and neck, or when I look at the body composition machine and see my body fat percentage, that's all about numbers. When I count calories and exercise calories burned and try to balance them out to reach a certain ratio, that's numbers too.
I put 6 ice cubes in my water, 5 in my iced coffee, cut my apple into 8 equal sections, my peaches into 4, eat 4 thin slices of chunk cheese, have 4 brussel sprouts (cut into halves) mixed in with 8 broccoli florets, eat 16 almonds, 12 m&ms (eaten in color order) and must have even 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, or 1 cup servings of any cereal or snack mix.
When did numbers get so much power?
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