Splitting Hairs

I’m avoiding the scale this week. I’ve been doing so well with the food, the water and the exercise and I am scared that if I jump on there and see no change (or worse yet a small gain) I’ll be disappointed. Whenever I first start working out I always see a small gain. I know this, I accept this but I still feel discouraged by it so I’m just going to avoid seeing it altogether. I think I’ll give it another week before facing the numbers.

Do you guys have a “routine” or “tradition” when it comes to weighing in? I’m very ritualistic about weighing in. I always do it early in the morning when I’m wearing a pair of pajama shorts and tank top (as little clothes as possible!). I will not weigh myself if I’ve just taken a shower because I have a ton of long hair that holds water and I often wonder how much does that water add. I also often wonder how much my boobs weigh. I have some rather generous boobs. I’ve often had this crazy desire to plop them one at a time onto the scale and then subtract that from my weight total just to see how much they add. The only thing that stops me from doing this is knowing that it would officially move me from “She’s so crazy in a zany, quirky way” to “She’s so crazy in a straitjacket, no sharp objects way”. I think this is just some really silly thinking. As if I’d go around telling people, “Hey I’m fat but a lot of it is just boobs and hair.”