Today's numbers, courtesy of my weekly class: 301.5 pounds, down another two pounds from the previous week, for a total loss of 32.5 pounds lost since January 24th. The weight-loss machine continues to purr along contentedly. Our class is now officially done with our initial 12-week program, and are proceeding with a series of wrap-up meetings, though the format seems to be remaining the same. Eventually those will end too, and then we'll be down to monthly followup meetings.
I just might keep dropping by on a weekly basis anyway, just to use my HMO's super-accurate scales. There are two of these babies in the lobby of the wellness center, consisting of floor-level metal platforms big enough to roll a wheelchair onto, with little printers attached so that you can get an official recording of your weight to the nearest half-pound. The only problem with having two of 'em, however, is that people overly obsessed with the magic number on the scale feel compelled to get a weight printout from both scales to discover which one is weighing a little lower each week (insert glyph of eyes rolling heavenward here), which sometimes causes quite a line to use the scales.
But it still beats hell out of taking my weight on a home bathroom scale. Those things are notoriously inaccurate unless you spend a ridiculous amount of money for a premium job. And then you're confronted with the huge compulsion to be jumping on the scale five times a day to see what your weight is doing--been there, done that, had the psychodrama over it. So--no scales in the house, that's one of my ground rules.
I do still weigh and measure a lot of my food whenever dining at home. I'm still just a little too given to overestimating portion sizes, particularly when it comes to protein, my heretofore favorite pig-out foods. Here using the scale actually relieves some tendencies to obsess--no need to fret about whether I'm either cheating myself or cheating my food plan, because the scale reveals all. Yeah, the little crappy diet scale is also inaccurate as hell, but as I'm always using the same little scale, whatever errors are introduced are consistent across all my measurements. At least that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
P.S. I might be a little more scarce here on this blog for the next couple of weeks, as I have a few work-related deadlines looming large (yes, I do actually have a life outside of blogging and working on my health, heh). But I do check in here on a daily basis, so please to keep posting comments as you desire--I will notice, and respond.
Wooo-hoo! Go you :-) And I completely understand about the scale thing - had to have one out of the house for over a decade since there was just no way I could be healthy about having one near by.
Posted by: Kathy | April 21, 2006 at 11:39 PM
Thank you! :-)
Posted by: mizducky | April 26, 2006 at 04:22 PM