After last week’s good news, I redoubled my efforts this week to keep the weight coming off. I watched what I was eating, steered clear of anything that wasn’t strictly necessary and most days, I used the bike/cross-trainer and walked the dog – the only day I didn’t was Tuesday, when I went for a swim. That was quite an achievement – for the last six months or thereabouts, every time I’ve opened the cupboard, my swimming bag has shot me reproving looks – and when I ran across my spare costume a couple of weeks back, I’m sure I heard a little voice whingeing about being neglected! So when, having decided on the spur of the moment to go to the pool on Tuesday, I managed half a mile, I felt quite pleased with myself.
I wasn’t going to weigh myself this morning. I was going to leave it until next week; but having worked so hard this week, I thought, “why not? Why not give my confidence another little boost? Even if it’s only a pound …” To my complete shock, it was actually a pound and a half – in the wrong direction! That’s bad enough when I know why, but on this occasion I have no idea what went wrong. The first temptation, of course, is to blame the scales. Mine talk – a female voice which I think is meant to be friendly but which this morning seemed to me to have a strong undercurrent of barely suppressed glee! When I step on, she says, “Hello,” – as though she’s genuinely pleased about being stood on! – and when she goes back in the box, she says, “Goodbye”. As for the bit in between, normally if I step on two or three times, just to be sure, she gives me two or three readings – but not today. Today, I tried three times and could only persuade her to come down four ounces. It’s very tempting to blame her – but I was quite happy to accept her verdict last week, so I can’t really complain this week if she wouldn’t say what I wanted to hear. Well, I can complain – but it won’t do me any good! I’ll just have to attack this As I try to any other setback (more often than not it works) – let off steam, go and kick something (preferably something that can’t kick back) and have another go.
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