It’s quiet…too quiet!
No noise from the damn scale to contend with!
When I got back from Denver I was too afraid to step on the scale & record the weekend’s damage. Decided to skip weigh ins until I got back from the UP…which is starting to feel like a long time away from the scale. What if I’m gaining & I don’t know it? What if I’m losing & I blow it cause I don’t have that weekly encouragement? Okay, so I’ve only technically missed 2 weigh ins (before Denver & this past Friday), but it feels like a lifetime.
Okay, time to add in the food and exercise vitals:
Breakfast: kashi & 1/2 banana
Lunch: lean pocket & chips (real ones, the kind that helped me pack on the pounds, but only 10 of them)
Snack: 9 pretzels topped with seafood salad (gee, I’m hungry today); this delicious granola bar that’s only 100 calories &, not by accident, about the size of a pinky finger.
Dinner: cup of meatball soup, salad with grilled salmon & yummy thai dressing
Snack: WW toffee
Exercise: 4 mile walk/run
Sounds to me like the food and exercise is right on the money so why let a machine’s opinion ruin your day. It’s been weeks now since I’ve weighed myself. Still tempted from time to time, but I’ve sworn off until I notice some sort of bagginess in my clothes. I want my next visit to the scales to be a happy time so’s I can make my little ticker factory friend move to the right.
Everybody has their own way of going about this. For me, I’m not usually scale phobic, only lately. I’ve come to the conclusion that when I avoid it, it’s because I’m not really behaving as I should either food or exercise-wise and I don’t want to face the reality of what I need to do to lose. By setting goals with time limits, as my 5 by the end of May, I kind of force myself to pay attention to the scale which is, like it or not, the measure of whether I’m really losing and meeting my goal. I don’t like that I have to do it this way, but not paying attention to the scale only put weight back on me as I’m just not honest enough with myself. I envy those who can do it w/o the scale.