Me And My Scale
Hey there ho there!
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No, I didn't forget I have a blog...haven't we already been through this...I should be fired. But, alas, I AM the boss of this blog and I like me...so there.
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I'm on a diet.
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Don't even start. I DO need to lose a few pounds. Stop the slow creep upward on the scale. Nothing crazy. Just keeping the weight in a healthy range. Revamping the food that goes in. Making sure I'm doing my part to improve the calories burned.
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You know...healthy and all that.
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And I have a scale. There are really three schools of thought on the scale issue.
- Weigh every day.
- Weigh once a week/month.
- Never go near the blasted thing.
I'm an every day weigher. Always have been. It will not be changed.
My scale is possessed.
I began at my heavy weight not to be mentioned. In the first week I lost 13 pounds. I'd get on the scale every morning and think "It just cannot be this easy".
Then I thought maybe the batteries were dying. So I got new batteries. Same unbelievable loss. So I started to think "Okay, so this is good".
Then Saturday I was bad. Not like I ate a whole cake and a carton of ice cream bad. But I had more than one beer and more than one chocolate martini and the guac...oh...the guac. And the stuffed dates. And food from the grill...okay, maybe I was that bad.
Sunday morning, against my better judgement, I got on the devil scale. All 13 pounds. Back.
A little panic. Put the scale on a different part of the floor. Took the battery out and put the old one back in. Stood a different way. Left and came back later.
13 pounds. Back.
Yesterday down 2 from there.
Today...back to 13 lost.
I think the damn thing is fucking with me.
5 comments:
I weigh every day too. My rule of thumb is if it sounds too good or bad to be true, it probably is. You might consider new scales. I like Weight Watchers that weighs in tenths of a pound. It's not cheap, but worth every penny to be able to say I lost weight...no one but you has to know it's only a tenth of a pound.
Barb
Do I hear Mandy laughing in the background? I have stories of guys that started to report their gas mileage and their friends would add gas to the tank for a while and then start taking it back out a few tanks later. Drove the poor guy almost nuts. One of the instructors at TeleTech lost his mother's pizza pan and I called his dad and had him call Zeke and tell him he needed to bring theat pan home tonight. Poor Guy about went nuts until he saw me laughing. I finally fessed up and we all had a good laugh. His mom got a new pan also. MUD
I only gained 1 pound from last weekends guac, martini, etc fest. Have now lost that one and about 3 more. 13 sounds a little off - if it is a true 13 then your clothes have to feel a LOT looser. My scale at home reads different than at the Slim4Life office. Course I don't get naked there either.....
I swear I have the same odd fight with the scale at least once a year. Things that effect females moods for the day should not be so finicky!!
I too, am an everyday weigher! I can't help it...and mine is a weight watchers scale too... I don't pay too close attention to it one particular week 'o the month because I gain 8-10 lbs and then 4 days later I take it off...
it's a vicious cycle... I'll just keep moving and eating right ;)
Janet
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