Hop Scotch with the Bathroom Scale

How important is to weigh everyday?

There have been many times when I thought my scale was broken.  Usually the thought crossed my mind when I was on a really long weight plateau or when the scale was going up instead of down, I would shake the scale a little and be like..."come on...give me a good number!"

Yesterday, my son told me after his escapade in the bathroom where he supposedly washed his hair that the scale seemed broken.  I asked him what could possibly have broken the scale?  Did he drop something on it?  No.....unless his jumping up and down on it had something to do with it stuck on 255 lbs  Hmm.  I guess I'm really lucky it made it this long without breaking sooner as I'm sure, whatever version of hop scotch he was playing with the scale, was likely happening every time he took a shower.

Now what!?  I'm not really in the mood to go find another scale, but I suppose I'll have to.  I'll mess with it, see if I have any mechanical magic in my hands to make it come back, but being that I burned out the motor in the coffee grinder this morning doesn't give me much hope.   How helpful is the scale anyway?  Since I've already made my goal weight, I could just go to the gym in the morning and weigh there...right?

We'll see...I'm going there today.  What I dislike about using multiple scales is that they are all different.  The weight I get at the doctor's office is always different than what I had on my scale.  It causes a sense of anxiety when I use another scale. Will it say I weigh more? Will I not have made my goal weight on this particular scale?  Great...now I'm dreading the gym.

I read an article about how weighing everyday isn't healthy.  They suggest weighing twice a week or even once a week.  Weighing everyday for me was a good reminder that I was watching my weight.   So I disagree, yes some days I did weigh more than the day before and that made me correct.  I don't know what I would do if I would have gone a whole week without weighing and find out that I actually went up a lb instead of down a lb.  For someone who lost on average less than a 1 lb a week that's a full week set back.

Anyway, I guess I'll be scale shopping....anyone have any recommendations?

For those following my pumpkin experiment on how long a pumpkin can feed a family. I still have pumpkin bisque left that I'm eating...I can't believe that 1 pumpkin provided me with so many meals. I'm experimenting with banana squash.  I'm going to make lasagna next with the banana squash replacing the lasagna noodles.

Happy Carb Counting!

PS...Just continued messing with the scale and I fixed it!!