Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:07 am
I love the Manual Scale Alarm. Considering implementing it here.
I have an old-fashioned, new, scale. I wanted the one like the doctor's offices have but 1) they are hard to get and 2) they cost a fortune. But I ditched the electronic scale when I discovered that it's tolerance was under 2 lbs. So if the weight of the person getting on the scale was within two pounds of the weight of previous user (be it you or someone else), it would display the same weight again. (It displayed 5ths of a pound so I had no idea I wasn't getting an accurate reading but if I was 165.2 one day and 166.4 the next, it would display 165.2 because the gain was under 2 lbs.)
I was frustrated with how I had only 'big' jumps/drops with it but I was doing WW so thought my weight was moving in large increments. Then dh started to use the scale and suddenly, my weight was EXACTLY the same as his! Suspicious, we did some experiments and learned that since he was within 2 lbs of me, as long as we stayed that close in weight, the scale would register the same. To get my own weight, I had to get on the scale carrying over 2lbs of weights (so my 1 pound hand weights weren't enough), get off, put the weights down, and reweigh myself.
The new scale has a giant round dial. Around the edges are coloured tabs and you can use a tab for each person (providing their weights are quite different) or, in my case, I have three tabs, one for high water mark, one for goal, one for actual. They slide around the outside of the dial giving me a visual indication of where I'm heading. I only move the tab if there is a big jump, my daily (or every few day) readings are on a calendar on the wall above the scale.
Big drop in weight this morning. After working out on Sunday, I weighed myself and was 173. This morning, I was 168 (three times!) FWIW, I had pizza on Saturday for dinner (but only 2 of the three slices bought for me.) Oh, and some onion rings.
Since Sunday morning I've made the following changes:
1. green tea, at least 16 oz, each morning.
2. cut gluten back
3. drink more water (and I have to drink way more because my green tea has caffeine so doesn't count towards my water numbers like decaf tea does.)
4. exercised Sunday and Monday.
All of these were significant but I found when I wasn't exercising, I wasn't drinking "water" (decaf drinks) so was only getting 8 glasses a day, 3 of decaf tea, 2 - 3 of milk, and 2 of plain water. When I exercise, I tend to have 4 glasses of plain water before I even have my tea or milk in the morning.
Skipped exercising today because of my knees. Did drink 2 glasses of water before my green tea.
On the Measuring for March theme: I did blood work yesterday. I've been worried about how tired I am. My liver enzymes are normal. My TSH is out of range at 5.09 mIU/L. Upper limit is 5.0 according to our lab but since 2002 the recommendation is the upper limit be 3 so I'm showing indications of hypothyroidism. This is not the first time it was out of range but when I asked the doctor "How is my thyroid?" she said it was fine (she forgot that I have copies of my blood work so knew bloody well it wasn't 'fine'.) I didn't press her then because I was dealing with liver stuff but I will start pressing her now. I've been blaming the exhaustion on my hepatitis, but it might be the thyroid.