Gwennaford wrote:About the ticker, I won't keep it posted full time, because it's just a reminder to me & everyone else to keep getting on the scale, and I won't do that. I'm finally free from that addiction and I refuse to become a slave again with the scale as my master.
That said, updating my ticker was not a wasted exercise. I discovered that I HAD actually lost weight since Christmas -- quite a bit, in fact. Looking back at my ticker entries I discovered that between January & October, 2009, I had lost 26 pounds. I don't know how that worked out, because I thought I was 90 pounds down at Christmas and I'm at 111 pounds down now. I must have started retaining a lot between Christmas and the middle of January. ANYway . . . the ticker/scale thing was making me crazy -- it was down one month, up the next, down a little bit more the next, etc. etc. etc. That's when I boycotted the scale because I KNEW I was NOT eating the wrong foods. It bothered me a little bit to hear Ms. Heirloom say I had "re-committed to following LDL to the letter", because I honestly don't believe I strayed. The only thing I have done differently the past month is try to more clearly define a beginning and ending to each meal, and try to force myself into something of a traditional "daytime B-L-D/nighttime sleeping" time frame instead of slotting in meals & naps around the clock as time permitted.
Loves to all,
Gwennaford
