Scale went down
My weekly WW weigh-in was today. After getting on my scale at home when I first woke up (and seeing just a .5 loss, all three times I got off and back on), I wasn’t holding out much hope for a good reading.
But after a trip to the gym, where I put in 15 minutes on the elliptical machine, 15 with weights and 37 on the treadmill, I ran some errands and went to my meeting. It was a pleasant surprise when the WW scale said I’d lost a whole pound!
After my munchy Sunday, it was even more of a happy surprise. Imagine how well I’d have done had I actually stuck strictly to Core for the whole week instead of 5/7 of it!
I was originally going to title this post “Oh, happy day,” but then thought better of it. Isn’t it funny how a weigh-in can affect your mood? At least it does mine. When I lose, I’m much happier all day than I am if I gain a little — and if I gain more than a pound, I’m in a funk all day.
Guess it’s not all that strange. Thanks to TV, magazines and movies, we’re always bombarded by images of beautiful, thin — sometimes too thin — women. When we’re losing pounds, we’re getting closer to that ideal.
Don’t get me wrong: It’s not that I want to be model-thin. I am aiming to fit back into my size 8 jeans — and that one, glorious size 6 skirt I have hanging in the closet. (It’s disgusting that the fashion industry considers 8 a plus-size. I was quite happy with myself at that weight — both the way I looked and the way I felt.)
But more than that, I’m aiming to get healthy. I don’t want to end up like my mom, who died at age 59 after going into the hospital because she was having trouble breathing. They told her she’d had a heart attack — and, by the way, she’d had diabetes for quite some time. It had gone undiagnosed for so long (my brother and I suspect a couple of years, because her personality started to change) that her kidneys were affected, and after having quadruple bypass surgery, her kidneys never really recovered. She was dead a couple of months later.
Boy — this started out as a happy post. How’d I manage to make it so heavy?