I am soo 'emoted' I have been loosing weight steadily and fast and my clothes are/were fitting.....

J

joanietoo

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more loosley then my husband said, bless him, "I must have a serious cancer because I am loosing weight"...he is very thin anyway...gulp....and so we started checking the scale, then I asked a few folk who came by to stand on my scale and give me a thumbs up that it was still working, I really want to truly have lost this weight....BLECH!!.....I bought a new scale because the old one deffinately has a problem...BUT guess what...I have GAINED 40 LBS

Now what...yes I have gained back about 15LBS, I think, as my clothes are not quite as loose but 40 LBS...no way.....

I choose the new scale on the price and that it is an analogue...tried to have digital scales before but when the battery went I could not get new batteries...they did eventually arrive on island but the hassle, poop,.. so this time I bought a Taylor and about the 3rd least expensive...I thought I was doing the right thing...BUT 40 LBS!!!!! GAIN!!!!!! I think I am going out to eat a cow, and a pig, and 6 loaves of bread, OH and drink a few gallons of wine...Darn It all, I am soo despondant!

Actually my husband says the new scale tells him he has gained 15LBS...which I think is really his right weight.....still it shows I have gained 40LBS!!!! (I feel I have just gained 15 LBS too)

 
I'm totally confused ;o) but congratulations - er, um - sorry to hear of your +40, whichever applies

Just teasing, Joanie!

 
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10# within 2 wks.

 
J, I would suggest "validating" your scale with known food products. Like a 5 lb bag of

sugar, a 10 pound bag of potatoes, a 20 lb bag of lawn seed, etc.

Or, if someone has exercise weights, use those.

At least it will give you a ballpark figure to calculate how "off" the scale is.

A 40 pound gain is a LOT different than a 15 pound. You physically feel it everywhere. Your arms bump into your....your..."frontwork", your face isn't recognizable in the mirror, and your profile visibly bulges in places you never knew had the potential to bulge.

Trust me, I've got "clothes in sizes 8 to 18" to prove it.

 
I wonder how you were able to gain even 15 lbs without feeling it in the way your

clothes fit tighter, not looser. That's really stange, unless you have been weight training and have added muscle and melting the fat? But still, I'd like to think the +15 was closer to the truth. Unless hubby had his foot on the scale behing you - heheh.

Do you have access to one of those professional ones like they have in a gym? Or can you pop into your doctor's office for a quick "nurse check"?

 
Joanie, what I used to do is to stop by a medical clinic because their scales are usually right on

Then you can know for certain what you weigh. It is possible that your old scale was way off too. I found that was the case with mine. When I started losing weight I thought I lost 20 lbs then my scale had to be tossed- didn't work anymore. I got a new scale and found I actually weighed 30 more lbs than I thought I did. I went to the doc's office and found out my real weight which was just a pound off from the new scale, was able to adjust it and even though it was disappointing at least I knew for certain. Then I started losing again. Keep at it!!!!

 
I also wonder if scales are "off" at different points.

Whenever I go the the doctor, the weight on the doctor's scale is pretty close to what I weigh at home, so I say it's pretty accurate. But hub says his weight is at least 5 lbs. heavier at his doctor's than at home.

Of course we have different doctors, but I figure all of their scales are calibrated on a regular basis.

I told him the reason is that our home scale is pretty accurate in my range, but less so in his range smileys/smile.gif Is that possible?

 
I am going to join a spinning class. 1st time this is on the island. Then I will use their scale

I have been playing squash a lot so hopefully this is 'muscle' weight and looser clothes, well I have been loosing, that is certain...it is just that the new scale, without a doubt, is also reading wrong! smileys/smile.gif

 
LOLOLOL...I too have clothes from that size to THAT size...I can not have gained so much, it is def.

that the new scale is over reading by at least 20LBS my husband says....so yes I have gained and I hope it is really muscle weight. He also says to take it back..."Um, Sir, please take this scale back as it says...ummm, ummm, well, it says um,I am fatter than I should be" No, imagine if he stands on it and he swears he is the same weight he has always been...to embarrassing....;(

 
That is 'xactly what appears to be the case here....I have been loosing, my

clothes tell me..... but that, horror of horrors it means I was TERRIBLY heavy when I started this 'amazingly FAST' weight loss.

 
I wonder???....sounds weird but my skinny husband has put on weight too and he

is only 'skinny' 'cause I have got so much heavier than him...I always was heavier than him by about 20LBS even when I was 15 and he was 18....yet I wore his jeans...my legs were tight but his waist band was so wide!!! and he always kind teases me about it...urgh...

 
A joke

At a recent visit to the vet, he told Maude that between visits, the best way to determine the weight of her cat was to hold him in her arms and step on the scale - take the number, then subtract her weight from that.

The next week, she did as he directed, and in a panic, ran to the phone to call him. "Eeks", she screamed, "he's gained 20 lbs!"

I cracked up when I heard this... how true! ;o)

 
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