Hey there,
One of the most annoying things about losing weight is that it's not steady, methodical process. It's not that your weight keeps falling and you're happy and calm about it. Most times when you get on the scale the number will be the same or higher than the last time you were on it. This can cause moments of great anxiety, wringing of hands and grinding of teeth. How can I be gaining weight? I'm hardly eating! How can I put on two pounds when all I ate was 12 oz of food today? What the hell?
Weight loss isn't a ride on a slide; it's more like playing with a top. Let me explain…
A spinning top stays steady for a bit, then wobbles. It gets more and more unstable; wobbling more and more the slower it spins. Eventually it dips, rights itself, dips again, and rights itself again but always becoming less and less stable. It's essentially falling, failing, moving lower and lower, but this isn't how it looks. It looks like it's wobbling all over the place. Then it drops and you have to spin it again.
That's weight loss. You lose 2 pounds only to see them back on by the end of the day. You go to sleep, wake up and use the bathroom, suddenly your 3 pounds lighter. What the hell? You eat small meals; try to be active, end of the day you're up 2 pounds. DAMN IT! You go to sleep, the bariatric fairy comes and you wake up 2 pounds lighter. It's really seriously annoying. You scream at your scale and curse your misfortune…but guess what…overall you always come out ahead. Overall it’s falling, as it wobbles up and down.
You find yourself weighing yourself nearly nude (“My clothes are heavy”), after showers (“my dirt is heavy”) or after you use the potty (“My...”, okay, never mind this one). It can make you really crazy, or if you’re like me and already crazy, annoyed and annoying to others. Yes, yes I know I weigh myself too much. So what? Go soak your head. I am sure I’m not the only one. I’m dealing with one problem at a time.
