Occassionally, after waking, I will step on the scale in my skivvies to check on my day-to-day weight loss progress. Of course, this weigh-in is completely unofficial, and I always take it with a grain of salt. My scale appears to be exactly one pound off of te WW scale (mine registers as 1-lbs lower).
Getting on the scale helps me to realize that my weight fluctuates every day, a little lower, a little higher - and I only use the WW weigh-in as a measure of actual loss. Two days ago, the morning before my weekly WW weigh-in, I got on the scale to sort of prepare myself for what I might see later on in the day, and I registered at about 218.
Wouldn't you know, this morning, when I stepped on the scale, it showed that I was down to 214.4. That's the absolute lowest number I've seen on any scale in years! This number, as fleeting and incorrect as it might be, gives me the realization that I can hit the 20 lbs.-loss mark, and I can reach my 10% goal. It's all attainable - I just need to keep doing what I'm doing. The weight loss is slow, it's slower than I'm sure any of us wants it to be - but it's leading to something.
I'm going to use a car analogy: I want a new car (a MINI Cooper!). The new car is rather expensive for my budget, and I have to wait to get it. And while I'm waiting, I have to work hard to save up money for a large down-payment. Saving during these many months is making me smarter about budgeting, and I'm going to come out ahead in the long run. And when my new car actually arrives, it's gonna be such an awesome feeling.
As I attribute that to my weight loss, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling, knowing that I'm doing this right, and doing this for keeps.
Posted by weezgrrl at June 10, 2004 09:58 AMYou CAN do it!! Way to go chickie!!
Posted by: Peg at June 10, 2004 11:51 AM