{"id":259123,"date":"2020-07-31T06:48:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=259123"},"modified":"2020-07-31T07:00:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T14:00:39","slug":"weighing-yourself-is-self-esteem-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/31\/weighing-yourself-is-self-esteem-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Weighing Yourself is Self-Esteem Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To weigh yourself, whether your scale-weight (how <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/05\/how-to-lose-fat\/\">fat<\/a> you are), weighing yourself in terms of your bank account balance, weighing yourself in your <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/30\/eric-kim-critique-of-social-media\/\">social media<\/a> following numbers likes views etc is self-esteem suicide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is self-esteem suicide? <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/05\/why-im-anti-quantified-self\/\">Quantifying your self-worth<\/a> and &#8216;progress&#8217; through <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/19\/why-i-dont-like-numbers\/\">numbers<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/22\/unquantify-yourself\/\">Unquantify yourself<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some pragmatic ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Get rid of your scale at home or in your bathroom<\/strong>. Just give it away or throw it away. Better to just look at yourself naked in the bathroom mirror before you shower to judge your <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/18\/body-composition\/\">body composition<\/a>. <\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/instagram\/\"><strong>Delete Instagram<\/strong><\/a>. The worst thing for your self-esteem as an artist. Start your own <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/05\/start-your-own-photography-website-blog\/\">websiteblog<\/a> instead. <\/li><li><strong>Don&#8217;t look at your bank account balance<\/strong>. Make sure you got enough money to pay rent but beyond that&#8230; you are not your bank account balance. You are not &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/zeros-and-commas\/\">ones and zeros<\/a>&#8221; and commas.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To weigh yourself, whether your scale-weight (how fat you are), weighing yourself in terms of your bank account balance, weighing yourself in your social media following numbers likes views etc is self-esteem suicide. What is self-esteem suicide? Quantifying your self-worth and &#8216;progress&#8217; through numbers. Unquantify yourself. Some pragmatic ideas: Get rid of your scale at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ERIC-KIM-muscle-flex-front-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259123"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259148,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259123\/revisions\/259148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}