I don't know who to believe

Ah, the joys of technology. When I began my weight loss program (if you want to call it that) four weeks ago, we had an old, rickety dial-type scale that "started" 2-3 pounds +/- of 0 until you gave it a little knock and it would even out. With that scale on Tuesday, March 30th I weighed 340 pounds (that's the first time I've said that out loud to anyone but my wife, and it's kind of scary for people to know to be honest). For the next two weeks I continued weighing myself with that old beater of a scale.

It was in the middle of April that my wife bought a new-fangled digital scale with memory settings for up to four people, an ability to track your weight, an ability to set a weight goal, and more. It was actually labelled a "health-o-meter". On Tuesday April 20 I weight myself with the old scale and it read 335 (up one pound from the week before). The new high-tech scale read 337. This meant the old scale was two pounds off from the new scale, meaning I actually started at 342.

Well, tonight was the Week 4 weigh-in and I was nervous. I had gone over my 1500 calorie goal four times the previous week, with all four days being 500 calories over. The past three days I had really cut down and had stayed under, well under yesterday in fact after being too busy to even eat lunch (aka drink my Slimfast shake). The only day I had exercised was tonight when we went on about a 2.5 mile walk.

I was half expecting to come in at 338, and half expecting to maybe lose 1-2 pounds. I literally did a double take when I stepped on the scale and read 330 pounds!! How in the hell is that possible!?! I didn't eat great, didn't exercise much, and lost 7 pounds? Surely it was a mistake, and I stepped off the digital scale and re-weighed myself. Sure enough, within .5 pounds of where it was before. I tried two more times and it still read 330. I was nervous our fancy piece of technology had broken already, so I pulled out the trusty (and rusty) old school dial scale. It read 330 as well!!

I'm not sure what I did or what the secret was, but I can tell you that if I knew I would sell it and make millions of dollars. The only possible thing I can think of is that I somehow caused a bit of a malfunction last week when I weighed in at 337 on the new scale and should have weighed myself twice to be sure. Who knows.

To be honest I had been getting frustrated lately with some bad food decisions, a lack of exercise, and just the overall direction of my weight loss. This however totally lifts my spirits and really makes me want to continue on kick ass even more. Accounting for the variance between the old scale and the digital scale I'm at 12 pounds lost since the beginning and 10 pounds if you don't take into account a variance. Considering the strange things I've seen on both scales lately, I'm not sure which one to believe.

Whether its 10 or 12 is kind of irrelevant. I'm moving forward, feeling better, and ready to kick butt even more. And I'm at least halfway to my 20 pound weight loss mark which would kick in the automatic Blu-Ray Player (not a moment too soon either as our DVD player skips badly and is really annoying when trying to watch movies). I intend to blow past that mark and set my sights on 300 pounds next. End of summer maybe?