We’ve just watched an episode of “Our Welsh Chapel Dream” on catch up - https://www.channel4.com/programmes/our-welsh-chapel-dream
In the episode, they were renovating a room in to a Victorian palour
style bathroom. They’re a quirky couple and had some really interesting bits of furniture, one of them being a set of antique weighing scales.
The type that you could put a penny, old style one, in and it would show your weight; it had a sign on with “Barometer of Health”.
In the last hundred plus years, I’d like to think that we have much more advanced measures / barometers of health, yet the simple weighing scales seems to be the one
that everyone puts so much of their effort in to.
We’ve got all sorts of fancy gadgets and wearables that can give you ECG accurate heart information, HRV, resting heart rate, level of stress, blood pressure, the list is endless and more useable from a health and performance point of view.
Yet, when you starting achieving success with your fitness and nutrition efforts, your body changes shape, you can run further, lift more etc and the first
question people will ask is how much weight you have lost.
It’s time we start celebrating peoples success without bringing it down to a simple measure.
“You look great” should be enough without adding on “how much have you lost”. If it’s important to them, they will tell you.
We once helped a lady drop two full dress sizes in 4 weeks, she looked amazing and really changed shape.
Two full dress sizes.
Total weight loss - 2lbs.
She said when she told people that they looked disappointed and her success soon lost it’s shine.
If you want help with establishing which “barometers” of health you should be focusing on for your own specific goals, we can help with that.
Darren “compliment without caveat” Checkley