36F, SW:342 CW: 191??
I have been on my journey, actually taking it seriously for about 14 months now and have lost approx 120lbs in that time. I bought my own scale when I was 275 and have been weighing myself on it daily for about the last 12 months. It has been a love/hate relationship with my scale and there have been long periods of time where I refused to step on it for the sake of my sanity.
As I crept closer and closer to Onederland, my scale decided it would do some real dink behavior and weigh me really off. For example, one day it would weigh me at 205 and 212 the next. Logic told me that there was no way that could be possible. The next day when I weighed myself it seemed to go back to normal but theeeeen a week later I stood on it again and it said 196. I of course was over the moon, literally crying in my bathroom, in the dark looking at the scale. I have been sharing my journey on social media so I snapped the pic of the scale and couldn’t wait to share it. I held off for several days because I had an irrational fear that maybe the scale was not accurate. 3 days later when I weighed myself and decided to share my news, the scale read 194. It felt safe to post and so I did. You can imagine how much people celebrated with me and I rode that high straight to the scale weighing me at 187. I couldn’t believe it....aaaaaaand this is where my scale mistrust really set in. I weighed myself a week later and it told me I weighed 210. What...the...heeeeeeell?!?!? Major doubts started seeping in. I stood on and off that stupid scale and it kept saying 210...209...210. I frustratingly picked it up, ripped its batteries out and put in new ones, set it on the floor...212!!!
I felt so defeated, for 2 days I had a “poor me” party for myself but then, after the wise words of my boyfriend: ”Who cares of you really weigh 212lbs. You are doing this for yourself not anyone else. Keep that number to yourself and just keep doing what you have been doing. The weight will come off anyways.”. Gah! He is right, it will come off and I know all I have to do is keep working at doing the right things.
The scale read weird again this last week but has slowly been declining every day. Today it said 179 and laughed, gave it the middle finger and got back on...191 it conceded and I shrugged and accepted it.
At the start of my journey this would have devastated me, probably completely derailed me. I’ll probably have major trust issues with my scale and only ever trust the scale at my doctor from now on to be the real truth delivery machine... Long story short: Scales are great for keeping you on track and motivated but they’re also enormous assholes and you shouldn’t rely on them as your sole measure of success!
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