Hi, and welcome to another half-size-me audio blog. Today's blog title, How to Move Away from the Power of the Scale.

This is a continuation from last week's audio blog titled, Is the Scale All That Is Motivating You?

In the last audio blog post, I shared what intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation are

and why it is important at some point in your journey to move toward the intrinsic motivation

in regards to your healthy lifestyle. For me, the goal is to move away from my healthy lifestyle

choices being made in regards to the number that shows up

on the scale and making the healthy choices regardless of the scale's feedback. With the scale being

taken out of the equation, what will I do and how will I feel? It has been such a major part of my

life and I have focused on that machine more than I really ever wish to admit. I have been extrinsically motivated by it for a long time.

The scale readout has been the guide I use for what I should eat or not eat

and what kind of exercise to do.

The reason this is not a healthy place to be is you are not making those choices from an intrinsic place

because you want to, but rather because

you feel you must or should do fill in the blank, whatever it is. Intrinsic motivation was

beautifully explained in a post I found at psychologycampus.com. It states intrinsic motivation is

when your motivation comes from within you yourself, when it's based on your values and your motivations will not wear off.

It can't wear off because your values are very concrete things and they don't change or diminish quickly or easily.

So that means extrinsic motivation carries us so far.

But at some point, there is a good chance that

sluster will wear off. Then what? Or what if you stop getting extrinsic motivators like, say,

stars and stickers and medals? Are you still interested in doing the activities? I had to ask myself

this. If I don't weigh myself constantly, do I still want to eat healthy? Do I still want to work out?

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