Putting away the scale

I'm not especially motivated by the scale when it comes to fitness and health. My goal is not to lose weight, but to be active and healthy, regardless of what I weigh. Nevertheless, I've been in the habit of getting on the scale once a week, just to keep myself on track.

But lately, it's been making me crazy. I maintained at around 213 through most of my mat leave - sometimes more, sometimes less, but always in that general area. Then last Monday, I was up to 219 for no reason at all that I could think of. I had been making generally the same food choices as always, I wasn't retaining water or getting my period, or anything else. Just, I suddenly weighed six pounds more than I had for the past several months.

I weighed myself again yesterday - 214. All is well. Then today (my quote-unquote "official" weigh in day), I was up to 218. I don't know what you would have to do to gain four pounds in twenty four hours, but I'm quite sure I didn't do it, whatever it was!

Then I went to get dressed, and my pants are too big. Yay! These are pants that I bought to go back to work, so they definitely fit as recently as six weeks ago. And they're definitely too loose today. Which, given all the spinning and yoga I've been doing, makes a whole lot more sense to me than what the scale told me.

So I hid the scale. From now on, no more weighing. I'm going to keep exercising, and keep making healthy food choices, and I'll know I've lost weight when I can fit back into my pre-pregnancy clothes.