The Life and Lies of a Bathroom Scale

Like many of you, I started on January 2 trying to take better care of my body.  I haven't done a lot of working out, but I am committed to being nutritionally nicer to this temple of  mine.  I am not a weigh-in kinda girl (usually), but my doctor is hoping that the scale shows some changes, so I thought I'd get a baseline.  I did that on Tuesday, January 2 (which I already said, but I wanted to reiterate).

On Monday, January 9, I got on the scale again.  This was after nearly a week of being hungry, having a screaming headache (Hello, chocolate addiction.  Thanks for coming.), and spending a lot of time in the bathroom (8-10 cups of water a day?!).  Don't judge me.  There's a point here.

On Monday, January 9, I got on the scale again (which I already said, but I wanted to reiterate.  Again.).  And that dang thing said I'd lost less than 1 pound.  One freaking pound!  How discouraging!  I mean, it's not like I only have 5 pounds to lose, you know?  I was ready to just throw in the towel, and keep eating all the things I love and just keeping gaining weight one freaking pound at a time.

And then I thought, "But I lost the equivalent of a pound of butter off my body.  That's quite a bit of fat."  And I also talked to my support group (Hi, Amber!).  I admit it, I ate a few M&M's (because I'm doing BETTER, not being PERFECT).  (P.S.  Did you know that milk chocolate M's are 10 calories each?)  And then I drank some water, popped a carrot into my mouth, and moved on to...

Tuesday, when I got on the scale again, on a whim, because I'm not a weigh-in kinda girl (usually).  Only guess what?  It showed that I had lost nearly 5 pounds from the baseline weight.  I thought that couldn't possibly be right, so I tried again, and it said the same thing.

Basically I think the scale is on drugs, and I'm all kinds of tempted to get back on it every morning, just to play with its mind, ya know?  Only remember how I'm not a weigh-in kinda girl (usually)?  So I'm anxiously holding off till Monday the 16th to see what our high scale has to tell me.  I gotta be honest here:  I hope the 5-pound loss number shows up again.  But if it does, how do I know if it's telling me the truth?  Was the baseline number a lie, too? (I'm afraid not, but a girl's gotta ask...)