So I get home from some crazy weekend moving out of my uni house and as I'm lugging my luggage up the stairs, I see the scales in the hallway. I think, hey! What a laugh, let's step on them for a joke. I was curious as to see how much I weighed.And they showed... 11 stone??
That's 154 pounds.
Now, forgive me if I'm wrong, but is it POSSIBLE to put on 2 stone in 2 weeks? When your diet hasn't changed at all and you're exercising fairly moderately (but could probably be doing more)? And you haven't had any alcohol or done any weight training in absolutely ages?
I googled it. I was shit scared. I still am. The closest thing I could find was some girl complaining she'd put on half a stone in 2 weeks (7 lbs) and someone simply replied 'impossible'. As in, that's too much weight to gain in such a small space of time.
My clothes fit exactly the same. I LOOK exactly the same. As far as I can tell. No one's seen me and thought 'my god, she's put on a few!' And my sister tells me if I put on a few. My boobs aren't any bigger. I mean, I read an article today about a woman who was size 18 and she said she was 12 stone. How can I be a stone less yet wear 8/10 clothes comfortably? Cheryl Cole is a size 8 and she's like 8 stone max.
This isn't making any sense at all.
My mum called up to me, as I stared at Ricky in horror, 'Q! Make sure you try on your black trousers for work tomorrow and see if they still fit.' Oh yeah, I finally have some work! But anyway. I tried on my black size 8 (US size 4) trousers. They didn't fit at the start of last year's summer (10 stone 4). They fit when I started to shed the pounds. It was such an achievement for me, to be able to fit back into them. I just tried them on. They fit fine.
So it's GOT to be broken scales, right? As this makes NO sense. None at all. I tried putting other objects on the scales to see if they looked suddenly super-heavy, and they all looked about normal-weight for their size. Ooer. But this isn't right, in my case.
Yeah, yeah, it's broken scales! It has to be.
But still, I'm scared. So it's 300 cals a day (or as low as possible) after today, and exercise every day. And I'm weighing myself every morning. Because if by some, weird, magical reason, that IS real weight, it needs to GO. Pronto.
I think I might start drinking diet coke again. Even if it does make you retain calories, yadda yadda yadda. It's good at beating hunger cravings.
I'm sort of screaming 'arggggggghhhhhhh' inside my head. No more joking around. Even if this is broken scales, I feel like this is a sign. Like God or someone is laughing and saying 'this is your warning. Pull yourself together, or you're going to be even fatter.'
Yeah, pull yourself together. Yeah, it's a warning. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Q x
There is no way you've put on 2 stone in 2 weeks. No way at all. And I don't think you can be 11 stone and fit an 8 either unless you're like pure muscle! I really wouldn't worry, the scales must have been faulty :)
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Lottie x
The scales if broken, my went bonkers a few weeks back and had to get a new one. I still keep the old one though, for motivation :D
ReplyDeleteBroken. Ricky's gone mad as it isn't possible to gain so much so quickly. The fact you don't look different and no-one's noticed this 2 stone 'gain' and your 8s fit proves this :)
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