�particular brand of exercise; my story involves the removal of one item in my house: the scale. I propose removing your household weight scale and with it the most enormous weight every person who diets has to deal with: expectations.In October of 2008 I was experiencing a crisis of health. I was overweight, out of shape, and my general health could best be described as "At least I'm still alive". I went to see my doctor and the prognosis was pretty startling; the scale said I weighed right at 200 pounds, my blood pressure was good (though for the first time, it was on the high end of "good"), and I could not stop coughing due to allergies (or fat in my lungs, who knows). I felt like crap. Looking at that scale made me want to sob, 200 pounds! I know that some of you are rolling your eyes, but I'm 5'9" standing on a telephone book, so that's a lot of weight to squeeze on my slight frame. I've always been skinny! Well, until then of course.The answer was clear: Time to get back in shape. So I started running...okay, so I ran a little and walked and breathed hard a whole bunch, but it was a start. I weighed myself on my wife's digital bathroom scale every Monday. The first week, I lost a pound! Woo-hoo! The second week, I lost another pound! Yeah baby! The third week, I gained five pounds. What the F$#&?! The fourth week, I gained another pound...I was in the negative on my weight loss. The scale in our bathroom became my weekly nemesis, then that nemesis became a daily blight as I began checking my weight more frequently and frantically. Lose a pound, gain a pound, lose three pounds, gain two pounds. What in the hell was going on? This damn scale sucked!Do You Want to Lose Weight? Try Losing Your Scale First
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