As some of you know last weekend I went to the open tryouts for the West Coast Lightning, women’s tackle football. I’ll have a little show and tell for you in a bit.
What I’d first like to share is something that happens all the time that I just have to address one more time. It’s about people being obsessed with the number on the scale.
My aunt decided she was going to come down to watch and support me during the tryouts, so we picked her up on the way down to Temecula.
She had just gotten in from church and had just enough time to run through the Carls Jr drive through and change out of her fancy schmancy church clothes. As she settles in her seat and handles a fist full of French fries she asks me, “How come I’m not losing any weight?”
Now I know what you’re thinking right now and that’s part of what I was thinking but as they say on infomercials, “BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!!”
She continues, “people keep asking me how much weight I lost but that scale says NONE.” Again this is said between bites of a cheeseburger dripping with “secret sauce” but NO BUN cuz carbs are da debil (in my best Kathy Bates from The Waterboy)
Through some dialog I was able to find out that she looks smaller and her clothes are a bit looser (hence people asking about weight loss) but the actual number on the scale is no different. You and I both got the obvious, probably shouldn’t eat junk like Carliees (pronounced Carl eee’s, yeah that’s what I call it so what), but to be honest if it’s only once a month or so it’s not that big a deal.
Anyway we talked a little more and I tried to explain that the actual number isn’t that important in the overall scheme of things, but that its value lies in measuring. She would have none of that!
She pleaded with me that it didn’t matter that she was in a size smaller and had more energy and stamina because that “scale want budge not even 1 pound!”
You already know Im a Lakers fan (probably shouldn’t admit it after the start they had, but hey it is what it is) and she is too, so we talked about the Preseason game at Citizens that she went to last month.
She commented on how skinny new center Dwight Howard is. So I said, “Yeah but he weighs like 265!” and she answers “No, you didn’t see how tiny he is, I thought he was a big guy”.
And again I repeated, “But he weighs 265, that’s a lot, 265 is heavy!” You’re smart you know where I’m going with this right…well don’t spoil it for those that don’t, keep your smarty pants answers to yourself.
She says, “Yeah 265 is a big number, BUT he’s really small, it looks like he doesn’t weigh much at all.”
To which I replied, “BINGO!”
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying to throw your scale away and never give a second thought to that number ever again…I’m just saying when you only rely on it, it’s not the best way to measure your health and fitness level.
Just had to talk about that since it happened again. I will be back tomorrow after I edit the footage of the tryout so you can see how in my opinion I’ve “aged” athletically.