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We must stop comparison to have hearts full of joy and gratitude. But comparison is a companion to vanity. From our childhoods, we’ve heard this line and it’s insidious.

“Mirror, mirror on the wall,

Who’s the fairest of them all.”

Comparison gets us nowhere. Comparison is one of the top joy thieves when we’re on a weight loss journey (and perhaps all the time). We look at our results and find that we are left wanting when whatever we’ve lost may not be as much as someone else’s loss. 

And the results that we’ve had lose their satisfaction. We cannot be grateful. We are left wanting. Rather than operating from a full heart of gratitude, we feel like a child who isn’t getting her way. 

Famously, Theodore Roosevelt said: “Comparison is the thief of joy.” 

More importantly, the Bible says “We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise” (2 Corinthians 10:12).

They are not wise! We are not wise to compare ourselves with others. We need to stop comparison. God has called us to our journey of integrity and self-control. (For me it’s Bright Line Eating). 

The results will come. They really will. But it does no good to look at others and pine for their results.

One day at a time. One meal at a time. One ounce at a time.

Stop Comparison and Do This

What’s the antidote to comparison? We come to a place of gratitude for what God is doing in our lives and in others’ lives. We “rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn” (Romans 12:15).

“The more beauty we find in someone else’s journey, the less we’ll want to compare it to our own.” Bob Goff

Prayer for Today: Dear God, thank You that your timing is perfect. Please help me rejoice with others instead of comparing myself to them.