Thought I forgot about y'all, didn't you? Life got hectic yet again. But first, the numbers:
- Yesterday's weight: 201.5 lb
- Change since last week: -0.5 lb
- Cumulative weight loss: 132.5 lb
- Average weekly weight change: -1.66 lb
Just inching along some more ... or at least I think I'm inching along. Truth be known, my cheap-ass bathroom scale seems to have gone out of whack, so that if I step on it three times in succession it gives me three different readings. Needless to say, this kind of imprecision is kind of crazy-making to my inner diet-obsessive (not to mention my inner science geek). However, the idea of replacing the scale is running headlong into my inner tightwad, who refuses to cough up another chunk of change for another crappy scale, and is absolutely having a cow over the exorbitant pricetags on non-crappy scales.
Sooner or later this situation is going to frustrate me enough that I will break down and replace the damn thing, but in the meantime I'm treating it as another object lesson in the arbitrary nature of that magic number on the dial. Because, as a matter of fact, I'm continuing to get more than enough outside acknowledgement of my weight loss to negate any weirdness generated by my weird-ass bathroom scale. Though sometimes that outside acknowledgement has its own little weirdness factor.
You see, I've noticed this phenomenon: normally people who see you on a regular basis don't make comment on any change from day to day, because it's so slight as to be unnoticeable. But there seems to be some threshold of cumulative weight change that's sufficient to cause those same people to suddenly go "hey, did you just lose some more weight?"
Of course you didn't "just" lose that poundage--you've been slowly and patiently working them off for the past several weeks or months. But to the outside observers, it's only just crossed that threshold of visibly noticeable weight loss. And since they perceive it as having only just happened recently, that's how they phrase their comments. Don't get me wrong--I'm totally stoked to receive those comments, however they happen to be phrased. But I just can't help being amused.
Anyway, apparently I must have recently crossed another of those thresholds of visibly noticeable weight loss, because in the past week I have received a whole new raft of "hey, did you 'just' lose a bunch more weight" comments from people who see me on a semi-regular basis.
Mind you, I think I may have helped that along at least a little by some new clothing purchases--nothing like wearing some jeans that are not baggy for a change to draw attention to the changing contours of one's bod. Of course, if I'm doing things right those new jeans will eventually become baggy in turn, and my continued progress will once more be camoflaged . . . until I cough up money for yet another wardrobe replacement.
And then, I'm willing to bet cash money that I will provoke yet another new round of "Hey--did you 'just' lose a bunch more weight?" Heh. Guess I'm easily amused. Though no less grateful.
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