The Mind of ~Ifer

So.. .the dieting.

Well, in summary, it’s not that bad.  In detail, it has had some pretty crappy moments.

Before we started this, we bought a nice digital scale so we could keep track of our progress.  We agreed to only weigh in once a week, so that we don’t become obsessive with it.  And at the end of the first week, we nervously stepped on the scale to find that… nothing.  No weight loss had occurred at all.  After a morning of feeling really angry and disappointed, we decided to hang in there and give it another week, but that we were going to more closely track our progress this week.  Each morning… no loss.  Yesterday morning, it showed a weight gain.

Lovely.

We eat all healthier foods, no fast foods, cut out the cokes, started exercising, and now we gain?  To say that we were disappointed and at a loss would be a huge understatement.  What to do now?

Then last night, out of some morbid sense of curiosity, I weighed again, and it showed a LITTLE loss.  Then five minutes later, I checked again, and suddenly I had lost 8 pounds.  Five more minutes, and I had gained that 8 pounds back, along with a few others.  I weighed 5 times last night, and never once got the same weight.  Not once, in 5 checks within 30 minutes.  Here is a summary (keep in mind each weigh-in was only 5 minutes after the one before it):

#1: lost .9 pounds

#2: lost 8 pounds

#3: gained 2 pounds

#4: gained 1 pound

#5: back to my starting weight

Now, obviously, the scale is worthless.  I could understand variance of 1/2 pound or less, but 8-10 pounds? There is no reason for that.

So, the bad news is, we don’t really have any idea what our progress is, and we have ordered a new scale, and we will have to start the weight tracking over again when it gets here.

The good news is, that we feel better each day, I believe we ARE making progress and that it will show once we receive our new scale, and that all hope is not lost.

But still… grrrr at the people who made that crappy scale that has caused us so much anguish.

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