Last night I decided to check my weight and make sure I was keeping it on. My reference is 118 lbs. I weighed that the day of my chemo treatment with jeans, tennis shoes and my hoodie sweatshirt on. 118 lbs is really a bit underweight for me. But I think it's low because I'm losing my muscle weight. I was working out on the weight machines at the club before all this cancer stuff happened. I haven't been there since surgery so I'm losing my muscle mass. That's my reasoning for the slight weight loss. It can't be because I'm not eating, because I am eating all my meals and snacks too. So anyways, back to last night. I'm in my pajamas and socks and decide to check out my weight. I expected to see it around the 118 lbs. Well, was I shocked. The scale displayed 112.8. Yikes, that can't be! I stepped off, then on again, and the same thing. I was freaking inside. I'm wasting away! Aaahhhhh!
Well, I vowed to get more calories somewhere into my diet. I needed to gain weight. This was scary. I didn't sleep very well last night worrying over it. So today, I'm doing all the right stuff, eating all my meals, throwing in a piece of chocolate or two. We even went out to the Outback Steakhouse for my hubby's birthday and I had extra bread, some of the blooming onion, and a nice fish dinner with a baked sweet potato. Back at home I headed to the scale to see if I gained a pound. This time I left on my tennis shoes and hoodie, just like what I had on on chemo day. So I step on the scale. OMG! Now it says I weight 123 lbs. I just gained 10 pounds in one day! Yikes! Well, my son comes over to check out what I'm all upset about. He calmly assures me it is the scale. He has seen it give false readings on occasion. "Just step off, tap it, wait for the zeros to show, then step back on", he says. This time it showed 119 lbs. Whew! What a relief! So last night's 112.8 lbs was also a flaky reading. I lost sleep over a bad scale reading. Sheesh! So all in all, I'm doing good maintaining my weight. But boy, that scale had me going there for a bit.
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