Have I Lost 6 or 3 Pounds? An Easter Scene
Husband: I have some good news.
Robin: What?
Husband: I’ve determined that our scale is 3 pounds heavy.
Robin: For how long?
Husband: It has been off for about 3 or 4 weeks and I checked it against the doctor’s scale.
Robin: This reminds me why I married you.
Husband: Happy Easter.
So, two weeks in to Jenny Craig and I swear I thought I was gaining. As it happens, 2 weeks and 2.5 pounds. In those 3 weeks I’ve lost 3 pounds. Which is not satisfying when stacked against the total weight I’d like to lose but better than smashing my hand in the car door. Then there’s this news about the scale.
So do I calculate 3 pounds lost or 5.5 pounds lost? And when I step on the scale do I just mentally subtract 3 from the number on the scale?
I need a ruling on the weight calculation but in the meantime I’d like to affirm that it is moments like these that sustain a marriage.
He’s a keeper!
Meanwhile, I think it’s best to use the scale as a point of reference – so you base your weight loss on the scale’s reading and don’t worry how accurate it is. That said…if it’s only been off a few week, claim the six!! Sadly, my scale often says I weigh less than the doctor’s scale does. Hurtful. Hurtful and mean. Still, it is going slowly downward. Very slowly. Glacial pace. Sigh.
Shade and Sweetwater,
K
I just went to the doctor’s yesterday. I’m still traumatized from the weigh in. I’ll cling to any fantasy I can. I go to the same doctor as Kiki’s husband. I’m going to extrapolate and say MY scale is also off.
I say your husband is just saying that to get him some nooky points. Would totally work with me.
Get a Wii Fit, it weighs you as well as telling you how pretty you are. Well not really, but it is fun. The BMI thing not so much though…
So I do believe I can just go with 6 pounds.
And Luna just so you know the scale had recently begun to read heavy so that’s why the hubby checked it.
And Kelley I love the Wii so I do have my eye on the Wii Fit.
Kyddryn and noble pig I am SO glad you said I could go with six… even if it’s not true I’m going to cling to it. I makes me feel successful. A dieting beast. The number one thing that makes me go off my diet is not having success. Total dichotomy but walking around feeling like I accomplished something is worth.. something. I think.
6 for sure! And there is a rumor that the Dr. scales actually add 4 lbs. as well, stupid old machines. So if I am reading this right, take the 3 and add 4! That’s my kind of calculation.
(Felicific – aka Eighty eight, trying out a new name)
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I would get a new scale. I love my new one!…the scale, not the numbers it displays! anyway, it is a digital weight watchers/Conair, it has a save/recall button for up to 6 numbers (really great for those good days!) it is thin and has a handle to easily carry it. you shouldn’t leave it in the bathroom. I got it at kohl’s and have seen them at meijer. It is around $35. Good Luck!
Well the Terminator season is over so I’ll have to wait to verify my hunch but I am pretty sure the whole “robots take over the earth and kill all the humans” scenario gets started with these automated scales. As in Skynet starts with a bathroom scale (roughly…).
I taunt my scale by not using it. I have been stress eating over a realty deal that devolved into a legal hassle for weeks now and even though that has resolved, haven’t sold th property yet so am apparently holding my common sense hostage until then. OR I will have to appear in daylight hours in a swim suit without a tent to use as camo and that will trigger a return to more sensible intake.
Whatev. Celebrate the good news – (only not with wine and a tray full of cheese perhaps).