2.17.2008

funny things, scales

it has now been a little over a month and a half since melissa and i began our early-morning workouts and since david and i began a more regular eating schedule. for the first few weeks it was hard to tell if i was losing any weight, or if i was losing a little weight and gaining muscle. for a while i had no idea what i weighed. it didn't help that our digital scale gave readings all over the map. david stood on it three times in one morning, and his weight spanned an 18-pound range!

so, out went the digital scale and in came our new, analog tanita scale. while it's hard to know just what i actually did weigh when we started our work-outs, i can say with some certainty that, on our new scale (which accurately registers the weight of items for which we know the poundage, such as my dumbbells), i am currently at a weight of 151 pounds. this is a good thing. it means that i have lost somewhere around seven to twelve pounds. nice range, huh? this post helps to explain that.

i am supposed to visit my doctor again this month so she can track my progress, but i may put it off a few weeks just to see if i can drop a few more pounds. i'm not going crazy with this, but if i can get back to 145, i'll feel like i've accomplished something. and, as an added bonus, my driver's license will be correct again!

4 comments:

Melissa said...

good for you!! maybe i need to get a tanita scale...mine is probably perfectly accurate but it would be nice to step on one that displayed a lower number for me! ;)

simplicity said...

Way to go you!

I'm so impressed with your steadfastness to your new lifestyle!

Keep it up!

Stacy Peterson said...

Oh scales are my worst enemy. The gym, the doctor, my bathroom... they are all different weights. I go with the lowest # displayed and use that to gage any sort of loss or gain! I wish I could be one of those people who could throw away my scale... but no such luck so far. When I did that I turned into a whale!

Melissa said...

Dear, sweet Stacy. You have not, nor have you ever been - and I dare say that I you probably never WILL be - a whale.