Saturday, February 25, 2006
Face/Off
I have ... A rant.
A big one.
It's been bugging me for a couple of days now.
And I was hoping it would just pass, and that I would just let it disappear from the recesses of my brain.. Which actually happens a lot now that I am on the good drugs:)) YEAH!!!!
But this one won't go away.
And it really bothers me, not just because of how hard I have worked, but because of how hard I see others working and striving everyday at the gym as well.
A little over a year ago I stood on the scale and was devastated at the number that stared back at time.
I mean, the number was upsetting, I had never weighed as much then, ever, in my entire life.
So I made a choice to change.
And I have done an admiral job (if I do say so myself)!!
I have watched my clothes get looser and now all of my clothes are too big...
with the exception of the new pants I bought on Wednesday - HELLO size 12!!!!
But I go to the gym and I stand on the scale there - (not every day because that's obsessive and upsetting) - and the numbers don't change. And well - they are high.
Higher than I would like.
In fact they make me feel like I am gaining weight even when I am eating the same - or less, or better than before, and working out more.
Very disappointing.
I would have thought the numbers would go down a pound every week or so. But they were staying the same.
Then I went to Kincardine.
And that is where my scale for the last year has been.
The comparison scale, as it were.
And that scale has almost a 15 pound difference than the scale at the gym.
15 POUNDS!!!!
My dad's scale was 3 pounds heavier than my comparison scale.
When I weighed myself first thing in the morning I had an overall weight loss of 65 pounds from my original weight of Christmas 2004.
I detest the fact that the gym is adding pounds on to the scale to make you want to workout more.
I think that is evil and wrong... And should be punishable by a week at Grendku Industries, of course that would mean they would have to make time for an entire new corporation and they are entirely too busy for that...
but it should be too much work for them I would think.
My work here is done.
I will however be staying off the scales at the gym...
but getting back on the elliptical, as soon as my throat allows me to breathe in deeply without having a coughing fit that isn't excrutiatingly painful.
A big one.
It's been bugging me for a couple of days now.
And I was hoping it would just pass, and that I would just let it disappear from the recesses of my brain.. Which actually happens a lot now that I am on the good drugs:)) YEAH!!!!
But this one won't go away.
And it really bothers me, not just because of how hard I have worked, but because of how hard I see others working and striving everyday at the gym as well.
A little over a year ago I stood on the scale and was devastated at the number that stared back at time.
I mean, the number was upsetting, I had never weighed as much then, ever, in my entire life.
So I made a choice to change.
And I have done an admiral job (if I do say so myself)!!
I have watched my clothes get looser and now all of my clothes are too big...
with the exception of the new pants I bought on Wednesday - HELLO size 12!!!!
But I go to the gym and I stand on the scale there - (not every day because that's obsessive and upsetting) - and the numbers don't change. And well - they are high.
Higher than I would like.
In fact they make me feel like I am gaining weight even when I am eating the same - or less, or better than before, and working out more.
Very disappointing.
I would have thought the numbers would go down a pound every week or so. But they were staying the same.
Then I went to Kincardine.
And that is where my scale for the last year has been.
The comparison scale, as it were.
And that scale has almost a 15 pound difference than the scale at the gym.
15 POUNDS!!!!
My dad's scale was 3 pounds heavier than my comparison scale.
When I weighed myself first thing in the morning I had an overall weight loss of 65 pounds from my original weight of Christmas 2004.
I detest the fact that the gym is adding pounds on to the scale to make you want to workout more.
I think that is evil and wrong... And should be punishable by a week at Grendku Industries, of course that would mean they would have to make time for an entire new corporation and they are entirely too busy for that...
but it should be too much work for them I would think.
My work here is done.
I will however be staying off the scales at the gym...
but getting back on the elliptical, as soon as my throat allows me to breathe in deeply without having a coughing fit that isn't excrutiatingly painful.
Dragonfly 2/25/2006 03:49:00 PM
4 Comments:
MUSCLE WIEGHS MORE THEN FAT. What isimportant is how you feel and that you are in smaller clothes. Numbers of a scale are like those on a birthday cake. They don't matter as long as you feel good about yourself and what you are doing.
I'm seconding bondgirl, but if they are seriously changing the scales that's pretty low. It's all about how the clothes feel and how you feel. They should ban scales.
I know that muscle weighs more than than fat.. I check the scale as a way of gauging how I am doing in comparision to the clothes getting looser and not fitting...
Besides I am just a little curious!
But the changing of the numbers.. that is WRONG! and that was the point.
Besides I am just a little curious!
But the changing of the numbers.. that is WRONG! and that was the point.
That is true, the scale at my gym said that I was at least 20 pounds heavier than I really was. Mothereffers! They should just take the scales out...you always weigh more after you work out anyway!