My scale is one of those crappy non-digital ones where the little display goes around in a circle. My weight hasn't changed on it at all in the past 3 weeks while I've been working out. Well, that's not completely true. One time I weighed only 40 lbs, but that was because my kid was messing with the starting spot ("I don't like this number... I like this one!"). But basically, I'm still right where I was weight wise.
But I don't feel down about that at all. First off, it's only been 3 weeks. Second, I haven't really kicked the diet into gear. Third, my workouts keep getting better, and I know the weight-loss will come.
I had an amazingly difficult 2012. When you're dealing with the kind of stresses I had (have), it's really tough to get yourself to work out. All you want to do is disengage. For nearly a year I intended to - but didn't - work out. And even now, getting myself to go to the gym has been really tough sometimes. But I've done it a bunch of times over the past 3 weeks, and I've got a good goal this month.
There hasn't been any change in my weight or in my stresses, but there's been a change in me. I'm starting to get over the hump. And that feels good.
My gym has a doctor-type scale, with the horizontal bars where you slide the weights around. As it turns, out I figured out I was I was reading it wrong about a week ago. I thought that the pounds were divided into 1/5ths (160.0-160.2-160.4-etc) but it turns out they're in 1/4ths (160.0-160.25-160.5) It doesn't make a huge difference in my readings, but it does make me feel a little dumb.
The place I rented in D.C. had a gym with one of those. The gym I use now has a scale with a split down the middle front, and is at least 10 pounds off, and I'm not entirely sure it's consistent. That speaks pretty accurately about the quality of the place I'm going. But hey, it works!
I think it's a pretty good rule of thumb- diet to lose weight, exercise to be healthy.