Weigh-in

This is the first official weigh in.  The program recommends that you don't weigh yourself during this active weight loss.  I certainly don't adhere to that recommendation, and from prior experience I don't think anyone else does either.

I have been weighing myself everyday, sometimes two three times a day waiting for that number to go down.  "It's a miracle I lost ten pounds in three hours" but unfortunately it doesn't work that way.

I am always expecting that I can lose like a pound a day, so it is always a shock to see a modest weight loss.  As was the case this week.  3.1 pounds.  I suffered, I exercised, I followed the program to the T and what I get a mere 3.1 pounds?  And is that water weight loss?  I sure hope not.

Since I have been dieting off and on all my life, I expect someday I can cut my calories to the bare minimum and I will lose nothing.  It is at the back of my mind every time I start a diet, is this the time that my body will quit losing weight.  Will I die of starvation at this weight?

So just as when I am not dieting I get on the scale, the weight is what it is and I start stripping.  I wonder how much the top weighs, oh and the pants are at least 3 pounds, oops I guess not.  Standing on the scale bare naked I realize it doesn't matter what it says here, I am not stripping at the doctors office...

Well maybe next week it will be ten pounds.