HOW MUCH DO YOU WEIGH?

She wanted to lose weight. Actually, a lot of weight, 50 pounds to be exact. Ideally, her height and bone size suggested she should weigh 150 pounds, but she was just over 200. She in the first week, she got on the scale and it read, 202. “Okay, that’s my beginning place.” At the beginning of week two, she stepped on the scale. It read, 202. “Well, I didn’t lose any weight this week,” she said to herself. “But I want to lose weight. I want to get down to 150.”

Week three she stepped on the scale, 201. “Why am I not losing any weight?” she asked herself. “I just cannot figure this out. I set my goal. I really want it. I checked that it was ecological.” On weeks four and five she stepped onto the scale, 203, 201. That was frustrating enough that she decided she would talk to a Meta-Coach.

“So what are you doing to reach your goal of losing weight?” the Meta-Coach asked? “Well, I am getting on the scale once a week to assess where I am in the process.” “Okay, and what else?” “Well I’m believing and hoping.”