weighing
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:01 pm
I said I don't weigh her every day or even close. She gets it just whenever she sees me with the scale, because she likes to hear it talk. It's funny how I feel about weighing. Most people I would feel do not need to weigh every day. But I am the exception. I'm very happy when I lose, but when I gain, unless it's an exhorbantant ammount like two or three pounds in one day, I'm not really sad, I just go, ok, what did I do yesterday that might have caused this gain/ For instance, yesterday the scale said I weighed 224.6 up from 224.2 and I kind of reflected on my choices that previous day and realized that I had probably just eating more meat than I should have at dinner. So yesterday I just made a conscious effort to reduce the size of my plate. And to pay attention to how much meat I was eating. (Because the meat we bought was really good and it's easy to eat more than you're supposed to.) Anyway, this morning when I weighed I was 222.6 I think. So I was thinking, wow, I didn't starve to death, I controled my portions a little and look what happened? Of course, I think also, because of the fact that I'm really *trying* to be healthy, my Totm gain which is probably also what that was, wasn't nearly as much as it would have been. Maybe I'm just kidding myself but I have all the simptoms of that. So insteading of gaining a few pounds I only gained a few ounces and now am losing again.
So I guess the scale, for me, is kind of like an affirmation/accountability thing, and the more weight I lose, the less of an issue it will become. Another part of the reason I weigh daily is that I'm always worried that my weight will fluctuate up on a given day like it did on Monday, and then I really would be depressed and going well I only lost two tenths of a pound because I wouldn't know that I actually lost more but my weight had fluctuated. Now it's like Ok, so you had purple cow that's all, don't dispair. You weighed this much before so you'll lose it again, no worries. Anyway, I'm just two pounds from reaching my first milestone, ten pounds. Of course I have a lot more to goIn June of 2002 I was 168 pounds, and my long term goal is to get past that. I don't have a date as dates just put more pressure on me. Anyway, right now I have to get ready for a meeting at the blind school with my old art teacher who heads up the parent resource center there. I will talk to parents and meet their babies and it will be a blast! They always love to see blind people functioning as regular people.
Shell
So I guess the scale, for me, is kind of like an affirmation/accountability thing, and the more weight I lose, the less of an issue it will become. Another part of the reason I weigh daily is that I'm always worried that my weight will fluctuate up on a given day like it did on Monday, and then I really would be depressed and going well I only lost two tenths of a pound because I wouldn't know that I actually lost more but my weight had fluctuated. Now it's like Ok, so you had purple cow that's all, don't dispair. You weighed this much before so you'll lose it again, no worries. Anyway, I'm just two pounds from reaching my first milestone, ten pounds. Of course I have a lot more to goIn June of 2002 I was 168 pounds, and my long term goal is to get past that. I don't have a date as dates just put more pressure on me. Anyway, right now I have to get ready for a meeting at the blind school with my old art teacher who heads up the parent resource center there. I will talk to parents and meet their babies and it will be a blast! They always love to see blind people functioning as regular people.
Shell