WHMP: 14 February 2018

Once upon a time there was a young lady name Holly.  She was a bigger girl, she always was a bigger girl, being big was all she had every known!  She owned a set of scales but very rarely, and when I say rarely I mean NEVER, used them because it was honestly too depressing and confronting with that number on the screen.

Holly lived her life until one day she decided enough was enough and it was time to no longer live this ‘big’ life and it was time to regain control of her health and wellbeing.  This meant that she needed to become friends with those damn scales.  To she stepped onto those scales and her heart broke more than a little bit.  She exceeded the maximum weight limit of the scales and she couldn’t use them.

As a result of this she had to buy a second set of scales with a much higher weight limit.

The end

OK, so what is the moral of the story?  The moral of this story is that I own two sets of scales which don’t actually agree with each other.  For my regular weekly weigh in, I do what any sane person would do and use the same set of scales to register my weigh in that gives me the lower number.  These scales routinely weigh in 1.4kg lower than my other set of heavier scales.

In the last week the lighter set of scales have decided that they would like to check out and no longer participate in weigh in, I have replaced the battery in them but they still don’t want to play and as a result have done to scales heaven.

So what does all of this jibber jabber mean…….

Weekly Wednesday Weigh in results!
This week – gain 1kg
Total – 86.9kg

I am not at all upset by this week’s official results of a gain.  Why am I not upset? Firstly, because I have now transitioned to my heavier set of scales so the gain could be attributed to that.  Secondly, because small random gains are a normal part of this process.  This is a rollercoaster ride and in the grand scheme of things I am tracking on a continual downwards trendy with even nearly 14 months post op I am still sitting at the average weekly weight loss of 1.24kg since I first started opti-phase.

So yes I have gained, this isn’t perfect but what about life is perfect every step of the way?? It’s about enjoying and appreciated life as a whole so while I may have gained this week, shit happens! I am not losing any sleep over it, in the grand scheme of things I am still consistently and regularly losing weight and tracking in the direction I want and need to continue.

This won’t stop me, this will in fact keep me motivated and focused to getting to where I want to be. And today where it has me dressed as a Valentine’s Day rose…….