After one month the new scale finally arrived. Will it be the doomsday?
in Issues in Weight Loss
as broke, Cheating, Fears, motivation, scale, weight
Image courtesy of SXC
Last time I weighed myself was August 24th. It’s so long ago, I had to look at the calendar to remember the exact date. I don’t even remember what my weight was, but I know it was somewhere around 365 or 362.
I stop weighing myself not for lack of motivation, but because my scale broke. It broke in an odd way because it still works for my girlfriend who weighs around 125 lbs, but for me it gives a reading of 0.0 lbs.
So we decided to look around for a new scale and it wasn’t easy to find one here in Montreal that will register more then 330 lbs. So I decided to look on the net and I found one at a reasonable price that calculates body fat percentage and weight up to 440 lbs. I though it would be perfect.
I couldn’t have been more wrong. It turned into a complete nightmare. To resume the facts: I ordered the scale on August 25th and finally received one in good working order yesterday, September 22nd. The first one (sent by express post at my cost) arrived on August 26th. It was broken and I had to send it back at my own expense, can you believe that? The scale company said that I should complain to UPS for delivering me the broken scale, it was ridiculous. I ended up paying $88 in shipping for a $69 scale.
So after almost four weeks the scale finally arrived. I didn’t want to step on the scale last night because I usually weigh myself in the morning and frankly I wasn’t very excited because I haven’t been doing much exercise and I’ve been straying from my diet. I’ve been eating some sweets here and there. I haven’t been cheating a lot, but without the scale I had no proof that I was still losing weight….
When I woke up today I hesitated a little bit but for some reason I mustered up the courage to end my misery and confront the scale. One thing I knew was that the longer I avoided it , the worse the situation would become. I was just praying that I wouldn’t be more than 370 lbs.
When I stepped on the scale, a lot of things passed through my head and I started to remember all the bad choices I’ve made over the past few weeks and I was pretty scared of what I would see. When I looked down and saw 354.8 I was SHOCKED. My girlfriend even asked me to step on the scale again and I got the same result. I looked through the window and for some reason the sun felt to me a little bit shinier today. 
Cross-posted to minimizeme.tv
The Simplest Thing – Finding Motivation In Odd Places
in Weight Loss
as comments, motivation, weight loss
Have you ever had a simple little comment throw you off, get you going, or rile you up in some manner? It happened to me recently and I am hoping I can use it for motivation. My blog friend Tony Posnanski called me out recently for a weight loss blog contest I decided to throw this month.
Basically I’ve just been in a major rut and haven’t been able to get anything going on my weight loss so I am falling back on things that are easier than writing about gaining weight – like giving away money. It probably wouldn’t surprise anyone to learn I am working on a redesign of my blog too. I’m a classic procrastinator looking to focus on the less important things while my weight balloons.
Anyway, I thought Tony’s comments were dead on the mark and I didn’t have any problem with them at all. He liked the way I used to write and was simply calling me out for not writing like I used to.
So what was the comment that set me off?
The first comment posted on his post, from rottie69: “My hat is off to you Tony. It sounds like you and John are 2 of a kind.”
Now I don’t know for sure if this is what she meant, but I took it to be the opposite of a standard saying which would be “you two are one of a kind” – in this case I would love to be one of a kind with Tony because the guy has lost 200 pounds, is a prolific writer and and all around nice guy. And he cooks, and I love to cook.
But saying we are two of a kind? Well to me that means I’m the opposite – I’m the yang to Tony’s ying. And let’s face it – the truth hurts. I’m not losing 2 pounds let alone 200.
So rottie69 – here’s to you, thanks for the wakeup call.