Day #10 - Sometimes Paine Is Funny

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"These are the times that try men's souls,"  were the words spoken by Thomas Paine rousing exhausted troops to continue fighting in 1776, and for whatever reason - it worked. Now I know that my dealing with a bit of extra weight is not in the same category at all, but the words somehow are exactly what I wish to express.-) 

Somebody (who will not be named) is busy complaining today. 

The new scale (damned be its truth telling ways!) informed me this morning  that I had GAINED .6 pounds! Oh sure, I've been through this before, but it's still hard to take, ya know? That I have come to a plateau after being sooooo diligent is the thing that grates on my nerves. Yes it's true I am a child of the age of speed-in-all-things. I want what I want, and I want it yesterday! 

The question now: is what I learned this morning, a time that literally tries my manly soul? Well, I guess not, but let's just say that these are the times that try my astoundingly stellar patience. And, there's that word again.-p

Day #5 - The Morning After Leap Day...

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As it turns out no amount of rocking back and forth, no method of stepping ever so  s-l-o-w-l-y onto the new scale has any effect whatsoever on the ultimate outcome of results. I should be elated by this turn of events, and of course I am. However, some part of me longs for the good old days when the previous scale would tell me lies. I know now that it did this to get me where it wanted me; dedicated to keeping it polished and located in a place of high honor. As it turns out the new scale is a more mechanically minded, dare I say, a more truly robotic device, and no amount of metal polish can be offered by which to change its carefully calculated measurements. It's a good scale as scales go, but I have to say it, I was used to being wooed by the old one, receiving flamboyantly worded messages such as: WEDNESDAY 7:00 AM first thing in the morning, and knowing that if I spoke very sweetly it would tell me that I was four entire pounds lighter than I actually was, and it would do so day after day. The new scale is cleanly and methodically accurate, but where, I ask you, is the love? Oh right, now I remember, I provide that part:-p
Here's a question: when is a great film like Hugo like a scale? Answer: when it is imbued by its owners with some aspects of personality.
Strange day, strange post... seems fair.
Oh, by the way my weight remains exactly as it has been for a couple of days now.

Day #29 - is the New Day #1? Yes it is.

Mirror Mirror #10 - Jonathan Ellis

My weight today, as of 7:30 am, is 188.8, which is about a pound more than where I thought I was 28 days ago! 
Now we all know that I'm a glass half full kind of guy, but really this is not what I wanted to see. Oh sure I was beginning to suspect the truth about the lies being spewed by that other scale.
The question that comes to mind at the moment is this: has the scale become my magic mirror? See, I've been watching a, way cool, TV show called Once Upon a Time which comes complete with the Wicked Queen, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin and on and on. My point is that we know that the magic mirror will always tell the truth. "Snow White is the fairest in the land,." will be said even in the face of the Queen's rage. We do absolutely expect truth from our tools, and yet, here I am.
The question remains, am I indeed starting over? 
Not exactly, but it really does pain me to have fully believed my weight to be some 6 pounds lower than it really is. Oh sure, I can see that I've been losing weight, but now I have six more of them to lose.
All I can really do at this point is continue on in the same way I been doing all along. Even the incorrect numbers were reflecting progress. I've decided to accept what is, as is. I really see no other way to keep myself in line, than to restart my numbering of days, with this being designated as the day of beginning. This does not discount any progress that I've made, but it is an admission to having been heavier than I thought. Can I blame anyone oir anything for that? Uh, have you been listening to what I've been saying about that scale I banished from my home, never to be spoken of again?
Please allow me to quote myself, "Onward and downward."
Tomorrow will be day number two:-)