Ode to My Sister's Scale

My beautiful daughter and myself in Little Rock, Arkansas, with two strangers in the background. This picture was taken in July 2006, when I was 3 months pregnant with my son. I weighed in this picture just slightly more than I weigh now.

So, yesterday I weighed with my sister's scale and with Wii Fit. My sister's scale said 211.4, which is what I posted for my weight on yesterday's weigh-in post. My weight on the Wii Fit was a little higher.

Today, I made the determination that, since I can't always get into my sister's room to get her scale, I should probably just stick to using the Wii Fit, since it belongs to my husband and me. (I realize that our living situation is somewhat unusual. I will have to make a post about our family soon.)

My weight on the Wii Fit today was the same as what it was on Mandy's scale yesterday. Which means, technically, no progress. That's okay, because I'm switching to Wii Fit from now on, so today will be the only inconsistency, I hope. My next OFFICIAL weigh-in is Sunday, but I can't help but weigh every day.

Well, after Mandy got up this morning, I was able to get on her scale. This is NOT my official weigh-in for the day; I'm sticking with the Wii Fit weight of 211.4. BUT it was SOOO nice to see my weight on Mandy's scale: 207.8! I weighed twice to make sure it wasn't a fluke. That's a loss of 3.6 pounds from yesterday. Again, I am not using that weight as my official weight. I know that 3.6 pounds is not a healthy loss for one day. All I can say is: I've been sick and without appetite, I have a lot of weight to lose, and I'm in my first week of dedicated dieting and we all know how quickly one loses weight in the first week.

So, this post is about my devotion to my sister's scale. I love it. I want to make a little dress for it and take it with me wherever I go. Maybe I can get a purse that it will fit in; then I can take it all around and treat it like Paris Hilton's dog. Okay, just kidding. But after weighing on that scale unofficially today, I feel like it's my new best friend.