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July 21, 2005

Obsessive Compulsive Up and Running Again

I’m watching the scale kind of close because I don’t want to gain weight since I haven’t been exercising. Today I stepped on the scale and it said 174. I’m enjoying those numbers and they are making me feel thin. I look in the mirror and I actually see a thin person. I wouldn’t be surprise if I have a little bit of that body dimorphic thing going on. My reflection changes based on my mood and even if I just look at it too long.

My mom has one of those cheap scales you get from a five and dime store. Do you see that antiquated terminology? My mom’s house will do that to you, although, this particular scale might just be that old. In my concern for its accuracy, I’ve weighed myself all over the house. I thought I remembered there being a difference between the upstairs and down. Like the gravitational pull of the earth is greater on the second floor. So, needless to say, for good measure, I’m weighing in the basement.

As I mentioned the other day, I put my daughter on the scale because I figured she hasn’t strayed from her stable 23 pounds. But what if she has? It just wasn’t good enough. I kept wishing I had something that I could be sure of its weight. I remember being told that a gallon of milk weighed 10 pounds. We don’t have any milk here but my mom does have a gallon jug of Paisano wine (class act). Milk is more dense than wine so that wasn’t gonna work. The whole time I was thinking about this, I was rolling my mom's dumbbells below my feet. It feels really good on the bottom of your feet and I certainly wasn’t working out with them. I can’t believe how many scenarios I came up with before I realized to use the dumbbells.

So after about a million different combinations using her set of 3, 5, and 8 pound weights, it appears that the scale is only off by a pound! I’m finding it really hard to believe that I could have lost nearly 9 pounds in a little over week.

Do things weigh less in NJ than they would in California? I’ve noticed that the moon looks bigger here (in NJ). Do you think that the magnetic forces of the moon are lifting me up from my underwire bra and tricking the scale?

Anyone???

Posted by hopeful @ July 21, 2005 12:56 PM