Those of you who read this blog regularly know how much I’ve been struggling with my weight loss, despite following WW and working out on a regular basis, including with a personal trainer twice a week.
I was a bit concerned about what my weigh-in would show this week, because I’ve been sick. It was some sort of weird flu-like illness that made me feel achy, nauseous, and really tired. Plus I had a mild cough and a runny nose. I went to workout on Tuesday, but Jimmy sent me home because he said “those are the rules. You don’t workout when you’re sick. Just rest and get better and I’ll see you next week.” I ended up doing 20 minutes on the stationary bike, because I figured that wasn’t too much effort, and maybe I could “sweat it out.” Still, without really working out and with taking the cold/flu medication that seemed to dry me out, I wondered what I’d see on the scale.
Well, no reason at all to worry! I lost 4.1 pounds since my last recorded weigh in a few weeks ago, for a total of 3.5 pounds lost since June 18! I don’t know why I haven’t recorded my weight for last week on the blog stats page, but I think this means I lost over 2 pounds this week. In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that this is based on weighing myself on my home scale, in the morning, with only my underwear on. For me, this seems to be the best weigh-in method. It’s accurate, and I don’t have to worry about what I’m wearing or what I’ve ingested and how that affects the weigh in. I did the same thing last week, so these results are substantial.
So, I’ve decided that my official weigh-ins are now going to be the ones that I do myself on my home scale. It’s an expensive Conair/WW scale, so I’m confident in the results. I felt such a wave of relief when I decided to use these results each week. I always felt as if I was somehow “cheating” if I didn’t use the WW scale results as my official weight. But now I realize that’s just silly. There is no reason not to feel that the results on my home scale aren’t just as valid as those on the WW scale.
Which is not to say that I’m not going to WW meetings anymore, because I am, but I’m not going to worry as much about what those weigh-ins show. There are so many factors to consider with an evening weigh-in, and it was starting to become really destructive to my weight loss efforts. So I’m not going to freak out if I show a gain on the WW scale from week to week, because I know that it could be as simple as eating more for lunch from one week to the next or having more water that day. I love going to the meetings because of the support and the topics, and my leader is phenomenal.
Speaking of meetings, because of Back-to-School night this week, I couldn’t attend my usual Thursday evening meeting, so I went last night to a completely different center. It was good, but definitely different. It felt more corporate, somehow. One reason is that the meeting place itself is bigger, and the atmosphere is colder. The leader was fine, but she didn’t have that caring quality that Michelle, my Thursday leader, has. It was important for me to go to a meeting, because I really do feel like the meetings help me “recharge” for the week, but I definitely know that the Thursday evening meeting at my regular center is the one for me. That was a good thing to discover, as well.
So this has been a very crazy, hectic, and tiring week. But it was a good week, too. I’m so happy with the weight loss!
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