Doesn’t the sun beating on your skin feel so good this time of year?  If you are like me, you have caught a serious itch to move more and more with the longer days and awesome weather (even if it snows every now and then still!).

With increased activity and motivation, there’s an expectation that our efforts would lead to some degree of weight loss.  We use the scale as our judge and referee, expecting it to tell us if we are OK or if we are doing a good job.  When the scale doesn’t move, we painfully and harshly beat ourselves up and follow the thought pattern that everything we are doing isn’t working and that something in us is broken.