Scale Paranoia

I’m afaid to step on the scale anymore. Lately it goes from a 3 lb loss to a 3 lb gain and back to a 3 lb loss. So basically I’ve been losing and gaining the same 3 lbs for about 4 weeks. FRUSTRATING.  However, my work pants that I just got in December are falling off of me so I’m losing inches but not weight. I must be gaining muscle because this week alone I’ve had 3 people ask me if I’ve lost more weight. Odd.

I have never been one to enjoy the scale. My entire demeanor depends on what the scale says and I know that’s not right. That’s why I don’t weigh myself every day. I would get so discouraged to see the numbers to up and down constantly.  I know I eat well. I don’t binge and gorge. I try to eat at least 6 grams of fibre for breakfast, a healthy lunch and try to have dinner finished by 7 pm. I "try" to watch my sodium intake. (holy shit there is so.much.sodium. in everything that is not home made)   I’m not going to worry about it as long as my clothes keep on getting too big. I’ve gone down 4 sizes since the middle of last year so that’s something, right?

People always underestimate what I weigh. Yesterday at work I asked my closest friend what she thought I weighed and to be completely honest. She guess me to be about 15 lbs lighter than I actually am.  Even when I was at my lowest weight of 130 (5 years ago) everyone thought I was 110.   I think my body would shut down at 110 lbs. I was probably half of that when I was born. Ha ha ha.

I think we have finally narrowed down our vacation this year. If everything goes as I would like it to, we will be in Punta Cana around Feb 22. I so need this vacation. We didn’t end up going last year because of a crisis that happened just before we were going to book so we used our vacation money to help someone out. This year we are going.

I don’t normally talk about financial crap in my diary but for now I’m going to so I have it documented in case we get off track. Back in August or so hubby and I decided we were spending WAY TOO MUCH MONEY on useless crap. We had no idea where our extra money was going. We would buy something if we saw it and wanted it. We didn’t necessarily need it but because we could afford it we would buy it. That meant our savings account was less than what I would like it to be because we were not saving like we should have been. So we sat down together and made a budget and surprisingly we have stuck with that budget so far.

We promised to put $500 in savings every 2 weeks. We gave ourselves $100 each, every 2 weeks for spending money for things we wanted but not necessarily needed as to not go overboard on spending. We put a set amount aside for gas groceries and bills. (cable, cell phone and insurance and utilities)  I’m happy to say we have a very very small balance on our credit card ($600) that we pay $100 on each month so that will be gone soon. We have RRSP funds taken directlly out of our pay cheques so we never even miss that money.  Our excess left over cash from the month stays put and carrys forward to the next month.  Once that credit card is paid off it will be used like a debit card.  Charge on it and pay it off immediately. We only use it for the rewards program.

I am so excited that we have been able to save about $6000 in our savings since August. We are not scrounging for money and I have about $300 in "spending money" in my wallet I don’t even have a desire to use. I’m waiting for something to backfire and we’ll have to use that money but c’est la vie. It is a great feeling to be debt free and actually have money to spare. I don’t want to get to the point where we’ve depleted our savings account because of stupid spending habits.

Starting this month we have also opened up a new bank account and we will put $50 (twice a month) into savings so that in December we will have $1200 to spend on Christmas gifts and not have to come up with cash all at once. It really is much easier that way and to use we used to spend at least $50 three or four times a month just eating out at restaurants. That is NUTS! 

I hope we can keep up with this indefinitely 🙂

It’s friggin cold out today and we have to go get groceries.  I’m also thinking about going to get a new phone. I am torn though, between an iphone and a HTC phone. If any of you have either of these please help me choose. I really am 50/50 on both but my blackberry is old (it’s a curve 8330) I’ve had for 4 years and it’s like using a phone that is from the 50’s compared to all the new technology that’s out since I got this one.

I better go eat lunch since I missed my morning snack.

I hope you all are having a great day. Stay warm if you are not from the south. LOL