a tiny rant....

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  • larnsperger
    larnsperger Posts: 161 Member
    Scales can be a PITA especially when you insist on visiting them often. My advice would be to track your measurements once a month and only weigh once per week. However we all create our own hells and I was someone who was addicted to the scale and it dictated my mood. Finally I figured out that I was doing myself no favors and was in fact making the journey a lot harder than it needed to be. My solution gave it up for lent one year except once per week first thing in the am. The only time I ever touch the thing. It's been a number of years but I did break the nasty habit.

    The bigger issue is you are stuck and no longer losing I looked at your diary (past few days)and though most days you seem under your calorie goal, you eat a lot of processed food, cookies, chocolate, protein bars. Lots of people can lose weight doing so, I am not one of those people especially since I hit 50. I have to stick to lots of lean protein, leafy greens, almonds for snacks. I avoid excess crackers bread etc. I'm now maintaining and have allowed myself some of those things to keep my calorie up and stop the weight loss.

    Maybe you need to reevaluate your food choices to kick start your loss. Best of luck!
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Okay, for those who know me, this may seem a bit out of character (or not, depending on our sleeping arrangements~ask my hubby and you will get a completely different story!). This morning I have to rant...you see, I am the Eternal Optimist, I am your biggest fan, your cheerleader, the one who runs beside you on the tready at the gym when I am dying and says, "Come on, let's chase zombies for a change!" all the while, sweating like a pig on the chopping block...yeah...whatever the cost, I will pay it to help keep YOU going...

    This is a trait I have always had and I thank my mom and dad for passing this on to me!

    K---the rant:

    My bathroom scale is getting under my skin...It's readouts fluctuate like Grandpa's heartrate at a girly bar! Seriously....last night~and I know I shouldn't weigh at night or even daily, but I did, so there! Last night...I literally was up 6lbs from a previous weigh in...the scale has been climbing and people, I am doing all the right things....I exercise, I eat right, I watch you all losing 1 and 2 lbs a week and I sit here flirting with the same dastardly 3-5 lbs that I have since before Christmas...I am starting to lose my patience...sooooooooooo....when I got up this morning and weighed myself...back down below 330...okay, gotta love that, but how can it be???

    I move the scale a tad bit and climb on again...now I am 231.5....UGH! This is annoying, but I am thinking...okay maybe a few dust bunnies have collected around the feet of my scale...Turned him up on his bottom~low and behold, 3 of his little feet are dust bunny encrusted...okay...that is the prob. I remove the bunnies, dust the floor and replace the scale to it's proper home. Let me mention that I also wiped the scale with a damp cloth, just for good measure.

    I step gingerly on the scale once more and you will not believe what I saw!? Oh, the optimist in me would love to say that scale cooperated beautifully and I am now weighing the svelte 225 that my actions have earned, but NO! This scale (which consistently defies me)...reads.....104.8. To my tired eyes, this looked like 1048, not 104.8. I muttered to myself, "Obviously your life is over scale, today you get replaced."

    Alas, it is only as I sit typing this, that I realize, in my vigorous dust bunny eradicating wipe-down, I must have switched the units button from lbs. to kg....

    Giddy, I run to the bathroom to look...YEP...that is exactly what happened! YAY! I am not going crazy after all!!

    So, I switch it back, set it on the floor, and step on...I have now dressed for my workout and the rotten thing states..."Hey PORKY, you now weigh 232.5!"

    Folks, I am seriously getting frustrated here...I don't know what more I can do to get this scale to go DOWN!

    TODAY is Friday...my resolve is FRESH! This weekend I will INDULGE (in exercise) and keep eating (CLEANLY)! NO junk food shall pass between my lips or over my tongue and on Tuesday when I weigh in~~I will be THINNER than 232.5 in workout clothes in the early morn! This is my rant...and to quote my all time favorite actor, Tom Hanks, in one of my all time favorite movies, Forrest Gump, "That is all I have to say about that."

    Thanks for listening and happy losing!♥

    That's tiny? :)
  • shelleyjo1970
    shelleyjo1970 Posts: 23 Member
    Its fair to say that you could remind some that we are all here for the same reason. Weight loss support. You are doing great. Don't give up and personally I thought your rant was a little on the short side for me. I like to refer to my rants as B1T(H sessions. Good luck~ Shelley
  • JanaCanada
    JanaCanada Posts: 917 Member
    Everything about this post screamed "RUNNNNNNN FOREST...... RUNNNNNNNNN"

    So I'm going now. You've answered all your own questions ( get a new scale) except one..... And I'm going to listen to JENNY now... This is too much to early. A bit of advice to the OP. post your stats, and we can give better advice. Without that we just comment on your OCD.

    :huh:
    Funny, but I don't see anyone but you posting about OP's perceived OCD.

    Maybe you should run, Forest. You may be too judgemental for this forum. I understand the Chit Chat Board is ripe with the kind of sarcastic member-slamming you seem to enjoy.
  • GoldinaGrace5012
    GoldinaGrace5012 Posts: 8
    I have always been told.. do not go by the scale, but how things fit and measurements. Its the truest measurements! Don't let the scale get to ya. Its like jeans. What size fits? Depends of the manufacturer, not the size on the waistband.

    :flowerforyou:
  • shelleyjo1970
    shelleyjo1970 Posts: 23 Member
    Good advice....:happy:

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