Sorta-weekly weigh-in: re-calibrating

Yesterday I got tired of fighting with the borrowed bathroom scale--it's damn near impossible, with my nearsighted eyes, to read the weight from the teeny line-markings on the analog dial by my feet. Plus as I've whined previously, I never know how the damn thing is calibrated; it's one of those spring-loaded jobbies that can change its calibration depending on where you place your feet, where you place the scale on the floor, where the planets are in the sky, god knows what-all else. (In fact, I became convinced that last week's abnormally large weight drop was probably more likely an artifact of that flukey scale, and so I wound up not adding any extra food this past week.)

I eventually concluded that, for my continued weigh-management sanity, I really needed to quit all this damned bathroom scale madness, throw out the squishy data that scale generated, and go back to my official, much more reliable, and much easier to read scale at my HMO. So yesterday I made the trip back to my HMO's weight loss clinic to use their souped-up scales ... and then as is my wont since my recent surgery, I came home kind of bushed, and crashed.

So here I am today, entering the official figures:

• Yesterday's weight: 249.0 lb
• Change since last official weigh-in (7/31/06): -20.00
• Cumulative weight loss (since 1/24/06): 85.0 lb
• Average weekly weight loss: 2.66 lb
• Average weight loss over hiatus (approx. 5 weeks): 4.00 lb

There--now I feel a whole lot more scientific about the whole thing. Or something.

Note that the apparent weekly rate of weight loss over the surgery/recuperation hiatus is pretty damn high--but as I noted in a previous post, a lot of that loss is no doubt artificially inflated by the quantity of tissues surgically removed from my bod. In any case, now I have a new, non-squishy data point for my post-surgery bod, from which I can continue reliably tracking my progress.

And I'll be happily returning the bathroom scale to the friend from whom I borrowed it. Hey, it was better than nuthin' at the time, but thankfully that time has passed.