Your weight: The Big Debate, Topic 1 THE SCALE

AHHHHH the scale. We all have one right? You know it. It's under your bed, or out on the bathroom floor. Maybe you put it away, and it's been in the bottom of a closet for a while. Or maybe you have been good with that New Year's Resolution and your scale has had quite a workout in these last few months?

Well my scale is out. I like it in the middle of the bedroom floor, but Rod trips over it in his stupor upon waking in the morning, so sometimes we slide it under the bed. But I like this cheap little scale. It's a plain digital white one from Weight Watchers and it has the nearest .2, which helps. What would you rather be: 136.6? or rounded up to 137? I rest my case.

But have you ever noticed that we LOVE our home scales (okay love is strong) but we can not stand the Doctor's Office Scale?? HMMM? You know the one. It's an actual calibrated scale that you stand upon and have a nurse slowly, slowly, slowly, inch up the weight til it reaches what probably is your actual weight.

So there's the debate. Where is our actual weight? We use our home scale during dieting almost everyday...or at least I do. I know I'm suppose to do it once a week at the same time, but sometimes I have to check! And we weigh ourselves at home in the morning, right? The very second we get up, we RUSH to the bathroom and do our morning business, and then without any strip of clothing weigh ourselves BUCK naked..okay well I do! That's our real weigt right? Our very early in the day, buck naked, nothing in our system weight right?

Of course it's not. Our real weight is waiting for us at the Doctor's Office. Because we make our appt for 2 pm. What am I thinking??? That's two full meals I'll have eaten! And probably a snack or two...well crap! I step on the Real Scale and there is an extra five pounds that wasn't there this morning! UMMM Doc? Your scale is broken...

Well if you are like me, and I know this part is a little kookie, but you make sure to have an early morning appt. Like all my OB appts during pregnancy were at 9 am. And I didn't eat til after I was weighed! I brought a nutrition bar or a piece of fruit in my purse and after being weighed chomped down on that puppy! Geez I'm a pregnant woman starving here!

Oh it's worse. I'd make sure to have some coffee, because we all know it help things to "move along". Or as my mom would refer to it as the Daily Constitution. Well I am NOT being weighed without pooping! And I'd even go potty before being weighed to get anything out.

Does this work? YOU BET! I'd do it when I wasn't pregnant and on Wieght Watchers. I'd go to the gymat lunch but on my weigh in day I'd go a little earlier (because I'm starving from not eating!) and weigh myself there...you bet I'm 132! Not the 138 the Doctor's Scale says!

Anyway, there you have it - the great debate. Which Scale has your REAL weight?

2.6 pounds lost!

Running to get pumpkin spice latte......
I know it's just water weight but I don't care!

Bye Bye Old Friend....

AHHH Starbucks. Not that I'm the biggest Starbucks fan, I like little kitchy coffee roasters and mom & pop coffee house (How Seattle of me!)

But who has the will power against the Pumpkin Spice Latte? Not many.

I had one - last week when they started.

I've now told myself, no more Starbucks (or any other coffee house) because we are trying desperately to save money and with WW, I'm going to try and be good. My regular short non-fat cappucino is usually only 1 point anyhow, but I've now decided the Pumpkin Spice Latte will be my REWARD.

For every two pounds lost, I get my treat. Pumpkin Spice Latte with non fat milk.

Come on 2 pounds - Mama, needs her caffiene!

Weight Watchers AGAIN!

I used to be a small girl...do people know this? Most think I'm small now, but I'm still 20 pounds heavier then I was before Alex. But I was 29back then... (and 30 pounds heavier then High School, but as Rod tells me, grown ups are not suppose to have High School bodies and that I was utterly too skinny!)

Anyway I gained 54 pounds when I was pregnant with Alex. So after life got back into a routine, somewhere around 18 months old for him, my friend Pam at work joined WW. She too had just had a child too. She was attending the meetings with some friends. So I decided to go on Ebay and buy the starter kit and do WW at work with her. I never went to the meetings, just lived through her and what the leaders taught them.

Well she lost 37 pounds and I lost 27 pounds! I never got back down to pre-pregnancy weight, but I got within 8 pounds and was quite happy.

Then I moved to Seattle, and got depressed. Packed back on 18 pounds of it. Did Biggest Loser WW challenge at work and lost 15 pounds!

Then I got pregnant and now am back to 140 lbs. That's alot for someone who loved being 118. I have been trying to get back on WW, and have paid for it online since March. But I just have not been able to get on track!

I RE-started Saturday. I plugged in online that I was 140. And started counting again. Saturday went well! Sunday did not. I tried and actually think I did "okay", but did go over in points.

I'm going to try all week to stick to it. There is a wedding this weekend and the dress I bought is too tight! I just need to lose some water weight and it will fit, and I worry people will notice I still have the pregnancy weight on me.

I don't look bad, but I don't look like what I want to be.

We'll see - there are other dire needs in this world besides me losing 10 pounds.