My ears are glowing from the scale whispers.  The scale was very kind to me today and is whispering that the 140’s are close at hand.  ”What?” I said.  It whispered that I was down 4.8lbs from their prior week, I’m now 154.8 lbs!  I actually flushed.  I wanted to pick up the scale and profess my love for it.  Then I heard my leader say that it was indeed a large loss and then she asked if I was starving myself?  Imagine the noise an old record being pulled off the turn table would make - - - Arg!  So much for my love affair with the scale, back to reality. 

I told her that wasn’t the case at all, this was actually the first week that I had eaten on program since starting the diet 4 months ago.  Go figure, the program actually works when you follow it!?! I had been consistently eating more in the way of points than the program allowed and losing but at a much slower pace.  I can’t really explain why the large drop other than I ate well, I feel better about things, and I’m starting to get excited about being closer to my personal goal of heart healthy at 140 lbs.

She said she’s not too worried about the large drop because overall my weight loss when averaged out is within margin but she wanted to caution me that large drops like this are not healthy on a regular basis.  I understand her point but this is the first time the scale has wooed me with such gusto!  What can I say I’m still floating on air from his murmurs… who cares… healthy - smhealthy, right?  Wrong!

 I do care, I want to do this the right way.  The thing is, I haven’t been starving myself.  I refuse to be down about this.  It’s a big loss but I’m entitled right?  The scale is so fickle half the time with water gain, salt gain, and I don’t know what fluctuations.  I’m not going to let this be a downer for me.  If I spend another week on program and have another large loss next week than I’ll examine this idea further.  However, I don’t feel starved or weak or unhealthy.  I feel happy, healthy, excited and proud.  So for this week, scale you can murmur all the sweet nothings you please.  This lady likes hearing your voice!