On learning to use scales again

As I write this the country is 10 weeks into lockdown and, as I’m classed as vulnerable, I haven’t been into the outside world for the full 10 weeks.

There have been some benefits: If I can resist putting something on my shopping list, I don’t have things to tempt me, can’t nip out for a bar of choccy or a bag of sweeties, no meals out and generally more time to exercise. So, at the end of the 10 weeks I’ve lost some more weight, I’m fitter than I was, and generally I’ve seen my body shape change.

The minuses? I now have some new, fortunately small, pieces of gym equipment that I can’t get on with, I think I am driving my neighbours nuts with my Zumba sessions in the garden, and I don’t know what I weigh.

If you look at my previous blog about scales: https://www.glenyschatterley.uk.com/my-addiction-to-scales/  you’ll see I weaned myself off weighing myself. I had a routine: I got weighed at a regular hospital appointment every four weeks and each Saturday morning, after I’d done all my classes, I’d weigh myself. Both these scales were industrial types, so you couldn’t influence the outcome. These options are now not available to me: the gym is closed and, at the hospital I must get on the scales fully dressed including shoes. I know I have lost weight; I just don’t know how much.

My beloved, who does not have my complicated relationship with scales, gets on the scales at home and says what he weighs. I’ve tried it, after he showed me where to put my feet to get an accurate reading, and I can alter the amount I weigh by about 3 kilos depending on how I stand!

Method 1:  Instead of just getting on the scales, I hold onto the sink then mentally and physically lower myself as I let go of the sink.

Method 2: Keep moving the scales round the floor till I get the lowest reading.

Method 3: This is my favourite! Weigh myself three times and choose the best result.

So today I am going to weigh myself with beloved supervising. He’ll wear a bemused look as he tries to understand why this is so difficult, after all I have certificates and everything, so I can’t be that daft, and I’ll wear nothing and try to learn something. Wish me luck.