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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 45: It's Not the Scale's Fault

Posted by Ed Levine, December 12, 2008 at 9:00 AM

Thinner, my scale, has let me down this week. After allowing me to revel in my four-pound loss in the week following Thanksgiving, Thinner has displayed no love for his owner. That would be me.

Every day this past week I have gotten on the scale secure in the knowledge that I have not gone off the weight loss reservation, not binged or even eaten an ice cream cone, and every day Thinner has delivered me bad news. Every day I tell myself it's a long race; that I have done amazingly well this year; that I have hit a plateau; but still, when I get on the scale and I've gained weight, I die just a little.

So I'm not going to belabor the point. I'm just going to get on Thinner and see what the number is. And if I have a net gain for the week so be it.

The Weigh-In

Yes, as I suspected, I am at 236. Up two pounds for the week. Man, that hurts. It hurts plenty, but it doesn't hurt enough to affect my resolve to get down to at least 218.

There's always tomorrow, and the day after that, and the rest of my life for that matter. I'm not going to impugn the integrity of Thinner. I'm not going to say Thinner is just plain wrong or broken or lacking in any fundamental way. That would not be fair. Thinner is a fine scale, and I believe in him through thick and thinner.

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