March/April Weight Management Challenge

[Catrin]

125.2 this weekend

[Chile Pepper]

124. This has been an awful challenge for me. March was horrendous--too much work, no exercise. Now harvest has started, so April is turning into more of the same. I did get some workouts in last week, and I'm hoping I can get back on my diet today.

[Crankin]

106.2, exactly the same as last week. Actually, I am quite happy with this, after helping Oakleaf carb up for the marathon .
In fact, I only want to get to my goal of 104, to give me some wiggle room for gaining. This is a good weight for me, but I am still trying to get to my goal. Obviously, cycling is helping.

[Catrin]

Still the same 125.3....but April has/is a special month of 5 day workouts on top of whatever riding/walking/geocaching I can get in. In May that drops back to 2 days a week to allow more riding. My current elusive goal of 123 is basically there to encourage me to keep things on track. I am more concerned about body composition at this point than the number on the scale.

[ny biker]

I will post a weight tomorrow. I had to get up early this morning for a meeting (which was scheduled by someone who is stunningly bad at managing meetings, sorry but I just had to get that off my chest, thanks for letting me rant).

This week has shown a good downward trend, though things have fluctuated up and down by .5-1.5 lbs per day.

[ny biker]

Okie dokey, 144.8 for this week. Not what I would prefer, but it is in the right direction.

[Catrin]

hmmmm, apparently my scales have been lying to me, lying I say! I had a Bod Pod this morning just before my Sunday Funday workout, which means that I was up for a couple of hours. Normally I weigh as soon as I rise - and I did this morning. Typically my weight starts changing pretty quickly after rising which is why I weigh before then when my weight was at the lowest.

Not only was my weight less than .5 pound heavier than my lying scales told me, but I've lost 2% body fat in the last 10 weeks, which makes me happy! I try to schedule my Bod Pods at the same time of day and day of the week since all of that really does matter. Granted, I don't eat before that test but still, there should have been more than a .5 pound difference after being up a couple of hours.

STILL can't figure out how to get the battery out of my scales - there appears to be no good way to release it. If I have to replace the entire scale because I can't change the battery I won't be a happy woman.

Here is a picture of the battery compartment. My problem is there seems to be no way to "release" the battery. I am probably missing the obvious but this isn't my first attempt and I am rather frustrated with it. Surely I don't need to buy a new scale because my battery is low?!?! What am I missing? Thanks! That clamp at the in the bottom left corner apparently wasn't meant to be loosened/removed - or at least I can't make it do so...

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