CAN THIS SCALE BE TRUSTED?

I mentioned that I am using a scale I won at a party and now I am pretty sure it is not to be trusted. Much as I would like to believe that my weight went up 5 pounds and then down 10 in the same week - I don't think that is really what happened! 

The scale is one of those electronic kinds with sensors to measure various stuff and keep track of multiple users.  I am the only user and I never programed it to do anything but weigh me.  Maybe it is trying to burst out of the confines of my simple needs and give me information of a different sort than my weekly weight?

Rather than go through the ups and downs of another week lik this one, I may just head over to CVS and buy an old fashioned scale without a battery and or a brain.

LONG TIME GONE

I have not been here for a long time.  This weekend when the temperatures soared into the 90's I really felt the results of that long time away from paying attention to myself.  Aside from running to the internet to order some larger Spring clothes, I did make a more conscious effort to do more of what I started doing in the past few weeks.

One is that I pulled out the scale I "won" at the work gift exchange last year and weighed myself.  It is a different scale than the one at the gym, but I used that as the measurement I put on SparkPeople.  Next, I started tracking my meals again.  I had managed to get off sugar a few weeks ago and so far I have seen the benefit to the tune of 5 pounds gone.

I am so busy at the new job that I am finding it easy to stick to the portioned meals I am bringing and sometimes don't eat my snack until I am driving home which saves me from a ravenous arrival home.  As long as I don't taste test too much, I am usually good with dinner and I normally don't have a problem with wanting after dinner snacks.  So far I am running at an average of 1450 calories per day.

Activity is an issue.  The job is a bit of up and down, but not especially physical.  I haven't been able to get out to walk at lunch as I had hoped, I need to work on that.  The catch is I am tired when I get home so I don't get exercise in the evenings, either.  Plus there is the whole "second shift" thing with dinner, dishes, housework.  I will work it out.  Things will settle in with the new job and it won't take so much out of me.

So, I'm back. Plan to stay.