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What’s your go-to karaoke song?
Weighing In On Scales
ant to hear something crazy? My entire life is dependent on a piece of equipment that I can bet is in nearly every home in America.
This piece of equipment that runs my life is a scale, an in- strument for weighing. Scales have been a part of my life ever since I was born. The first thing they do when you emerge from your mother’s womb is drop you on a scale. I was 7 pounds, 8 ounces on the day I was born.
JENNY YIM
Singer/Songwriter, Honolulu
“Love Story by Taylor Swift. I’m a huge Swiftie and it’s
a scream-it-at-the-top-of- my-lungs kind of song. It brings me back to when I was a kid and all my friends would dance and sing to it.”
MATT CHUN
Musician, Honolulu
“Isn’t She Lovely by Stevie Wonder. This is my go- to song because of how important love is for everyone. Inspiring and encouraging people is what makes me want to produce music.”
AMANDA BLADES SERRAO
USPS Mail Carrier, Waipahu “Neon Moon by Brooks & Dunn because it’s a great song that everyone loves.”
WAYNE KIM
Client Services Department Manager, ‘Aiea
“As a full-blown Gen Xer, Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi is the go-to song for me, although I am really bad at singing karaoke
due to my awful sense of tempo. Karaoke tempo is unforgiving!”
That was the start of an obsession with my weight. Grow- ing up, we always had a scale in the bathroom. I was never really interested in using it as I was a “chubby” kid and had constant reminders about my weight without needing to jump on a scale. I was always last to be chosen for a team, and I dreaded P.E. for fear of ending up shirtless for “shirts and skins” play.
In high school, everything was about making the weight. We’d take salt tablets after running around the field in the hot sun wearing a plastic garbage bag. When I think about it, that was insane.
In today’s world, my life still revolves around this instru- ment. In my house alone, we literally have three different scales: one in our bathroom and two in the garage next to our exercise equipment. Of the latter, one is an analog scale and the other is something that came straight out of NASA.
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I Celebrate Aging
recently had the pleasure of interviewing psychol- ogist Joe Casciani, founder of the livingto100. club, who specializes in aging with over 35 years
of experience. During our hourlong conversation, we discussed the topic of “How can we sustain positivity and hope as we age, in spite of years of aches and pains, regrets and sorrow?”
The key takeaway was to think of aging not as a downhill slide, but as a time to celebrate. He said that it is important to see our lives as an opportunity, and though aging poses real challenges that we must re- spect, we need to avoid looking back and noticing all that we can’t do. We need to put intentional focus on what we can do, making the journey of successful aging exciting.
That said, where can we turn our thinking so that it is more about “can” and less about “no can”?
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Besides the three scales in my house, I have to deal with at least two others on an ongoing basis. One is at my Bootcamp gym and the other is at my doctor’s office. I can say with complete confidence that each of the five different scales will give me a different weight.
For whatever reason, the scale at Bootcamp and my doc- tor’s office both show me as being 8-10 pounds heavier than any of those I have at home. Yet, in spite of that, I will not adjust the scales at home to reflect the heavier weight. For example, after I come home from a visit to the doctor, I’ll jump on our bathroom scale and exclaim to my wife, “Hey, I lost 10 pounds!”
Of course, she doesn’t buy it but won’t say anything be- cause she, too, likes the fact that our home scale is 10 pounds less than her doctor’s scale! The analog scale gives me a different weight every time I step on it. So, like a roulette wheel, I’ll keep spinning the dial until I come up with a weight that I like.
Our NASA-esque scale utilizes an app that you have on your phone. It transmits all the data like body fat percentage, BMI and other stuff you don’t want to know.
I stopped using it when it messaged me that only one per- son at a time can step on the scale.
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