Diario di Navide, 11 set 13

The scale "says" all sorts of things. The scales can lie. If we "cheat" then weigh in the next morning, and don't gain, it gives us a false sense of relief like we "got away with it" but the scales don't know if what you ate was 1/2 pound of watermelon or a 1/2 pound of butter. You can't know how badly a "cheat" hurts you until probably 2-3 days later when your body is finished processing it. As they say, you can't fool mother nature. Everything counts - everything adds up. The reaction to what the scales tell you if you weigh too much can be "I got away with it - I'll eat more" or it could be "Oh, no! the scales went up when I was really careful, so why try?" and also eat more. Moral to the story - never trust the scale - trust that whatever you have eaten will count - or whatever you have resisted will earn you progress, regardless of what the scale might say. To find the true story as to why your weight went up or down go back three days and see what you ate that day. 

I don't sweat it, though. I do "cheat", but I never exaggerate. If my weight goes up a bit (whether it's today or in three days) it's not the end of the world. This site is helping me more in determining how I eat than what I eat or how many calories I ingest. Yes, I'd like to lose those 3-5 lbs more, but to maintain this weight would also be perfectly alright. I'll try my best not to regain what I've lost, but then again if I don't it's still gonna be ok. I'm not a fanatic when it comes to weight, especially if you think that at my worst I've been 136 lb, which for someone 5'3" is not bad by any stretch of the imagination. :)