JoScalIgMo

I've decided that in honor of NaNoWriMo, NaBloPoMo*, et. al, I am going to be participating in a monthly challenge of my own: JoScalIgMo. Joy's Scale-Ignoring Month. I will not be weighing in during the month of November. At all. My scale went up on the closet shelf this morning, and there it shall stay until December 1st.

I'm doing this for a couple reasons. One, the scale is seriously bumming me out. I get on every day, and no matter what kind of day I've had, it always tells me a number between 197 and 201. I am very, very tired of seeing these numbers. Will they still exist if I don't see them? Sure. But it will stress me out less. The other reason I'm doing this is to see what my weight does when I'm not watching it. I'm still trying to eat healthy, eat at home more, work out every day...just not trying to use the scale for validation of my efforts (or lack thereof). I'm hoping that the "watched pot" principle will apply here--the scale numbers will only go down if I stop looking at them. Superstition as a weight loss plan? Hell, I've tried everything else. :)

In response to a couple comments on my last post...yes, "merging the two households" means what you think it means. :) The year apart was good for me, not least because I discovered that some of the problems that I thought came with the marriage were actually caused by me, not us. There are still problems, don't get me wrong. I'm a little worried that we weren't separated enough during the past year...in the 10 years we've been on and off, there's never really been a period where we didn't see/talk to each other at all for more than a week or two, and this was no exception. There are things we're going to have to work out (preferably before my lease ends in December). But all things considered, I've decided that maybe the marriage is worth another shot.

Song: Be and Be Not Afraid (right-click, save-as)

*I thought about trying NaBloPoMo, but then I missed the first day. I suppose I could still do the rest of the month, unofficially.

Maybe? Gotta tell ya, that sentence would have been a lot cooler without the maybe.