Scale for Sale...

Hello all...

Well, I read a blog today about scales and thought I'd share. This is difficult for me to write because of course it is about (the whole reason we're here..) the sensitive subject of WEIGHT GAIN!

I have a scale that has always differed with the doctors office scale by usually about 8 pounds. WELL, the doctor (mine anyway) has always used the scale with that slidey thingy majigy..u know what I mean..the slider of doom. Well, it always comes out higher but I laugh it off and say "no way that's right.." and the occasional nurse or medical assistant will laugh with me and say "oh, just go by your home scale, that's what u use most often". So, for all these years, I have. Never thinking of the 8 or so pound diff.

Well, last year, I got a bit of a wake up call. Now, I've been losing but I weighed in on the scale at , I believe, 219 or so and the MD told me I am morbidly obese and she is worried about me. At first I thought "Oh, she doesn't know about the eight pounds", and then I started to cry cuz the words stung. I got over it and listened to her advice and kept on losing slowly. (Medications I'm on prevent rapid weight loss..I lose very slowly). SO, life goes on, things happen, holidays come, eating goes south, exercise joins it...

Time for my monthly check up. I knew I had gained a few. My last weight at the end of Dec. (on my home scale) was 215. Lovely number considering when I first started trying to lose weight I weighed 252 lbs. Now, bear in mind that I DID weigh that and I HAVE lost weight, the exact amount is the point of the blog..Lol. SO, I thought I'll just step on before I go and see what home says...216. Oh,not bad at all..I leave with a smile.

I get to the docs office and the medical asst. brings me in and tells me to step on the scale. I';m like "where's the slidey thing?" Oh no! They did away with it and got tall, stand up, digital, calibrated, accurate to the ounce scales! What is this madness! Yikes! Ok, Courtney, breathe! Think of the 8 pounds...So I stepped on and I weighed 223.6. I was crushed. Suddenly there was no 8 pounds. It was a myth. For all those years...it was just a comforting myth. WOW, was all I could muster. The medical asst. (who I had known for awhile..she's the one who usually sees me) says "it's ok, they're new but they're accurate. You didn't gain much..about 2 pounds." That's right! Since my last visit with the MD, I had only gained 2 pounds! But the two pounds was THEIR two pounds, not mine. According to mine, I gained 7 .6 pounds!

I guess I have no choice now but to start over. Yep,my friends. I'm coming out and starting over. I weigh 223.6. I have to buy a new scale in order to weigh in from now on. It feels refreshing to know what I weigh...is that weird? It's kind of enlightening? AM I crazy? No more "8 pound" myths...It's me, here I am...all 223.6 pounds of me!

SO, in short, who knew what I weighed when I started SP back in July? Who knew what I weighed at my lowest? Who knew all along? I never lied, I never tried to cover up...please don't think that. I went by a scale that tried to "protect me"..Lol. That scale is now up for sale..Any takers? Batteries included....

Courtney