How to Lose Six Pounds Overnight
Sounds like one of those millions of spam ads out there, doesn’t it? I’m not peddling spam, though. I’m admitting to doing something silly.
My scale isn’t digital, and I’m okay with that because I don’t fancy spending the kind of money you need for a digital AND accurate scale (digital doesn’t mean better unless it is also accurate down to the decimal it is actually displaying). My good ol’ scale has done me well and going by two-pound marks is just find with me.
Except for one thing.
Mr. JM, smart bloke that he is, connected that I had recently said our carpet is lumpy in some places and the fact that I weigh myself daily on the carpet. Our carpet is hardly shag, so I didn’t think much of weighing myself on the carpet. Flat enough, right? Apparently not.
One morning while I weighed myself yet again, he explained his reasoning and suggested I try weighing myself on the kitchen tile. I figured it was smart thinking but I didn’t expect it to make too much of a difference. How wrong I was.
When I stepped on the scale in the kitchen, I was instantly six pounds lighter. I couldn’t believe it, so I stepped on the scale again. The first thing I noticed – besides the number – was the fact that I didn’t have to keep adjusting it (you’d have thought that would have tipped me off to move to the tile earlier).
Six pounds… Needless to say, I only ever weigh myself on the kitchen tiles now. And that’s how you lose six pounds overnight.
I decided not to adjust the numbers on my spreadsheet for two reasons.
First, just because it was a difference of six pounds one day didn’t mean that, had I placed it in another spot, it wouldn’t have been a difference of eight pounds. Or four. I can’t really be sure of the daily influence of being on the carpet.
Second… Well… Getting to 264, being at that point, that is what got me to suggest meal replacement to my dietician. It’s the weight that got me to say heck with it and go with the ‘intensive’ phase of the meal replacement stuff.
Plus, it just plain feels great.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
My scale is very touchy so I have it in the laundry room because it’s the only floor in the house that’s flat. There’s bare floors in the bathroom but the floors slant. It makes a huge difference.
June 20th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
I don’t know that our kitchen floor is perfectly flat, but the fact I don’t need to keep adjusting it shows me it’s close enough.
I still have no idea why I didn’t think of this sooner…