No scales this time

ok, so I said I wasn't going to weigh myself for 3 months and then I would update. Confession: I cheated. Almost 3 weeks ago, under pressure from my curious daughter and due to my own curiosity, I stepped on the scales. BIG MISTAKE. Now, I had already taken a progress pic and while others mightn't be impressed I could see a difference I was very happy with - I could feel a difference in clothes and a few people had noticed and commented. Really, the number on the scales shouldn't have mattered. So, I was down to 144lbs - which is probably what I would have guessed if I'd have been asked, but secretly might have hoped it was a teensy bit more - but it was more than a stone gone if you include the weight I'd put on at Christmas, and the lightest I've been in quite a few years. I was kind of delighted and kind of disappointed and I did what I always do - I ate crap to both celebrate and comfort myself for about a week and next time I stepped on the scales I was 150lb. AAAGGGH. Thankfully I reigned myself in and lectured myself that the scales doesn't matter - it's what I eat and how I move. I did weigh myself one last time two days ago - just to prove that I'm going back in the right direction and I was at 146 and I'm pretty sure I'll pass 144 at some stage and eventually get to my goal of about 138 or lower - at least I think that's the weight I'll eventually be because my goal isn't actually a number it's simply to eat well and exercise regularly and I imagine if I continue to do that, then 138 or less will be where I end up.
Not sure how much I will continue to use MFP - I think it's great, but as I've said, meticulous logging is just not for me. Like, I ate four McDonald's fries today - who knows and who cares how many calories that is? I also ate a small mix of raw nuts and 3 of my favourite cranberries covered in dark chocolate - a fraction of the 25g calorie count on the bag. Overall - I have a sense of when my snacking is out of control but largely I keep it minimal and low calorie and it seems to be working apart from that one week when I went a bit crazy. It didn't help that it was a week which included a trip with long travelling and choices weren't great and it's good that I managed to reverse the damage quickly enough.
One thing that does bother me about MFP - while I rarely log - I was trying to check in daily - however one one of those days when travelling I completely forgot and my 37 day streak got knocked back to 1. It's silly - but I'm the kind of person that finds that demoralising and it almost seems like a punishment for forgetting to log in. In the past, when I was logging my food diary - it even sometimes was a factor in me giving up. I wish the count would say something like - logged in for 37/40 days or whatever - it's just that I'd get a little kick out of seeing the streak increase each day and it's horrible to see it back at square one. Especially when other members are at 550 day streaks. I wonder what someone would feel like if they had a huge count and then ended up in hospital and couldn't log in and were back at 0? Maybe it's just me that cares. So, if anyone has stuck with my story - thank you and fair play to you, I know it hasn't been exciting. I am happy to have written this even if no one reads it as it will always be there for me to check back on. I might come back in a few months and post another progress pic. At the moment I'm injured so exercise is minimal (injury due to 10 mile race with weak glutes) but I'm making sure I'm doing something. Looking forward to doing a lot more when summer arrives!