Chapter 231

Gaining weight in the Coronavirus era is easy to do, if you eat your stress like I do. I mean I am on the farm right now, working myself very hard, very physically, but the scales won’t budget. And as hard as I am working these last three days, I keep expecting expecting to wake up and see a drop in the number on the screen. Heck, I am so frustrated I got out another scale this morning, because I was sure the one I had been using for the last three days wasn’t functioning properly!

Sorry to report, it was functioning just fine. Thus, no matter how much I want to dispute this, the truth is staring me back in the face, I am eating more than I realize. And when I am eating more than I realize, I am stressed. I eat my stress. I need to calm down and relax. Perhaps you do too?

This could be a list of all the things that I could be stressing out about internally, or this could be a list of all the things that I can be grateful for, or this can be no list at all. Let’s be honest here, I have coffee, peanut butter and Nutella with me here at the table, what more could a person want?? Well the scales don’t lie, and clearly I want something more - and I end up putting food in there instead of resolving what is the cause of this stress inside. That will only cause me more stress, and not fix anything. The scale doesn’t lie. Pay attention to what the facts are telling you.

The scale doesn’t lie.