70 freaking pounds!

Sometimes I say I'm never weighing myself again and it turns out to be a lie. I'm all about not focusing on the number on the scale, but it doesn't mean I don't like to check and see what it tells me every so often. Anyhow, I weighed myself a few weeks ago and was moderately dismayed to see that I was the same weight as I had been one month prior. I mean, let's be honest--who wouldn't be a little annoyed at that? If there is a woman out there who would be okay with such things I will immediately adopt her as my hero. Incidentally, two days after I weighed myself I got my period (sorry if that's TMI, but it is true) and so I said to myself, "Aha! Perhaps that's why it was the same!" As any woman knows, that time of the month tends to mess with the scale.

Still, I told myself it didn't matter and I would keep going as I had been and perhaps weigh myself next month. Lots of people actually gain weight when they're doing things like training for half marathons, and completing a half marathon is more important to me than losing five pounds. That's how I've actually been the most successful at losing weight: it wasn't until I started setting fitness goals or goals other than a number of pounds that I began seeing serious results. So the number on the scale is pretty unimportant and I told myself not to fret and just pay no attention to it for awhile.

But sometimes I lie. I totally weighed myself today. 150! 70 pounds gone! For some reason 70 sounds way more impressive than 60 to me.

So, I'm a liar. Sometimes the number on the scale does sort of make me happy. But I'm not going to apologize for that because while its great that some people are totally happy with whatever weight they are at and don't care about the number on the scale, I don't think there is anything wrong with wanting to be at a healthy body weight. And having lost 70 pounds puts me well on my way to that goal.

Tonight I am going on an adventure to a pumpkin patch with Shawna. Hilarity will most likely ensue. Photos will most definitely follow.