Gosh I am really mean to myself

Amo_Angelus

I hit 164lbs a few days ago and then the scale tarted to change, the next day it put me right back up at 168.6! Or so I thought and I've been watching it go down again...Anyway today I was really depressed as I kept reading 165 and I wa getting off the cale and on again thinking "I've been excercising so much and eating the right ammounts, why is it not dropping below 164! I've done nothing wrong since I did hit it" Now at this point I should probably mention that I have dyscalculia (dyslexia, only with numbers) and when I stepped on the cale for the 3rd time today, the numbers stayed the same, only it suddenly clicked...it's not saying 165...it's saying 156! No wonder they shot up! They actually sank by only a few pounds :P Anyway, I couldn't believe it, so I weighed myself another 10 times and they're staying 156! And now I've got over the initial shock, I know that it wasn't saying 168, it's just the 5 and 6 look very similar on my digital scales and I was so used to seeing 6, that I just continued to see it!

Well appart from feeling very silly, I also feel well chuffed! I've passed my halfway mark! Just to be ure though, when my fiancé gets home, I'm having him read the scales to me. I'm pretty ure I've got it right this time, but I still don't want to believe it. So I'm going to have him read it just to make sure :P

dls06

Congratulations and keep up the great work. You should be proud.

BeautyFromPain

woohoo!

famlyluv

Meanie!! lol i bet it was a great feeling to realize what the scale really said! If you are having trouble reading the numbers on your scale, i wonder if they make one that reads the numbers to you? congrats on your weight loss and i would gladly be your friend to support you!!:flowerforyou:

UsedToBeHusky

Great work! Sorry about that number dyslexia thing. Fortunately, you didn't starve yourself to death before you figured it out. :happy:

Amo_Angelus

It would be useful to have one that reads aloud to me, but I imagine they're expensive. I think I'll just rope Chris into weighing me once a week. It's way cheaper :P And thank you ^_^

hehe, no worrie about that. I love food too much to starve myelf to death. I've been monitoring my measurements which have been consistantly going down. My waist for example is now 32.5 from 34 :P Which has been fantastic, been making me wonder with the scale readouts though :P I'd have stopped the diet once I hit 129 regardless of the scales because that was my size when I walked a catwalk, there's no way I'd ever keep a diet if I got back down to that size. I'd simply focus on toning. It's a little bit of a race to see whether I hit 129 or 25lbs down first, either one will signal a success and put me onto maintinence.

I have to do it that way, partially because of my dyscalculia, but also because I don't undertand numbers beyond my lowest and current weight. At my lowest I was 126 and 29" waist. At my highest I wa 177 and 34" waist. I know I want to be closer to my lowest but not that kinny because I no longer do catwalk and curves are healthier. I don't want to be a coathanger, but I don't want to see a spare tyre either :P