Have I been duped?

Hello everyone. It's a rainy, dreary Monday here in the northeast. Today was my weigh in day. When I jumped my naked body ( don't even try to picture it!!!) on the scale, first this morning I was up 3/10 of a pound. Alittle bit of disappointment set in. I did go out to dinner last night to our favorite thai restauant. I had the basil salmon with steamed veggies. I asked for more veggies insead of the rice, and they happily agreed. I figured there was probably a little more sodium in that meal, so maybe I might have a little water retention. I also just got my period yesterday, so I figured there were a few reasons that I could be up alittle. I don't ask for much in the weight loss department, but I am happy if I could just lose a pound a week. Baby steps, small goals  work best for me. I know I'm the slowest loser, but I need a little success to keep me motivated. So I accepted the reading,  and got dressed for the gym.

My husband was still home when I got downstairs. He said to me, "what's up with that scale?" " It's saying I lost about 8 lbs and I know I didn't." Now you need a bit of history here. My husband is very thin, as is everyone in his family. If you don't believe that there is a genetic component to being overweight, then you need to meet this family. They eat well, but they are all tall and thin, and no one has a weight problem. In fact I think his mother needs to put on about 10 lbs because she is so skinny.  His sister and I would eat pretty much the same foods when we would go away on family vacations together. We would come home, and I would be up 5 lbs and her weight would be the same. So frustrating,  but we have to work with the hand of cards we've been dealt. No sense crying about it right?

 A normal person wouldn't have paid much attention to the question my husband asked me. But to a scale obsessed person, like myself, this question can cause, fear, panic, and even tears! "What do you mean? You think the scale is reading inaccurately and too low, I asked????" "Yes", he answered. "There is no way I lost 7 lbs in a week, and I just weighed myself at the gym.the scale is off."

 I bolted up the stairs to the very scale I just left. I hopped on. It was up 2 lbs.....in 20 minutes??? Then I moved it all around my bathroom and I got different weights each time. Really different weights. What is going on? I did a post on this while back and I showed through pictures that the scale read differently when I moved it from the boys bathroom to mine. It's a digital scale and only about 2 years old. There is one area of my bathroom that I think the floor is not level. The scale wobbles alittle in that spot. So I always make sure the 4 little feet are flat on the surface. The bathroom was cleaned yesterday, so maybe the scale got moved around a bit, but now I'm wondering how I know for sure what I weigh and if it's accurate.

For now, I'm sticking with the weight I got first thing this morning. Remember I lost three pounds last week, which is unusual for me, so being up 3/10 makes more sense. I think I am going to get another scale anyway. This is causing me anxiety!

Thought for the day: “Some people succeed bcause they are destined to, but, most people succeed because they are determined to." Author Unknown