FINAL week on Onna's 4 week weight loss challenge



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I completed Onna's 4 week Weight Loss Challenge http://onnaslittleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/4-week-weight-loss-challenge.html. 
I'm proud that I actually finished it.  Not that I accomplished much but I hate when I start something and it just fizzles out -something I do all too often :(

So this past week-once again (surprise surprise) I didn't make it to the gym.  I do have a physical "excuse" though.  I actually have a lot of issues with my back and this week it was hurting all week.  On Friday I even went to a Chiropractor for the very first time.  I have always been very against going to one and frankly quite terrified.  In fact several times while sitting there in the waiting room to be called I though about dashing out the front door!  I was so extremely nervous about the treatment but when I left I was in awe.  Now I know how people get so "hooked" into going.  You just feel so amazing afterwards.  Anyways long story short-no gym this week.
I stepped on the scale today for my weekly weigh in.  Let me refresh your memory that 4 weeks ago when I started this challenge I weighed 138.2.
Today I stepped on the scale and it read 129.8...WOW! I couldn't believe it.  There was NO way.
Last week I weighed in at 133.8.  Could I have really lost 4 pounds???
So I weighed again...it read 131.2. hummmm
And I weighed again and it read 129.6.  I thought "what the heck was going on????"
Now if you have read my other posts in this challenge I have been quite surprised by my weigh ins.  Although I have tried to eat better and go to the gym-I was less than consistent with any of my goals!  I thought the scale MUST be broke.  So today when I stepped on and it read 129.8 I knew it hard to be broke!
I decided I would put fresh batteries in it (when was the last time I did that-I couldn't even remember) and stepped on the scale...3 times.  I was quite sad to realize that in fact my scale WAS BROKE!!!
I weight all three times the same...135.6
So after 4 weeks of thinking I was tracking my weight I actually have no idea what my starting weight was and how much I lost!  I cannot believe it!  I know my weight after replacing the batteries is accurate because as I said earlier I went to the doctor on Friday and we know how accurate those scales are!  It read 135.
What did I learn on this challenge?  Not much except replace your batteries in your scale often to be sure the weights are accurate and remember you have to take one day at a time when trying to eat healthy and maintain an exercise program.  If you have a "bad" meal don't turn it into a "bad" day and then a "bad" week.  Move on and strive to eat better at the next meal.  It's not about perfection.  I just want to be as healthy as I can be.

XOXO
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