Day 8: The Day of Reckoning

Friday was my first weekly follow-up appointment with the diet center.  After a day of BBQs and night of fireworks, I woke up to the realization that I had to face the scale squarely in the eye. I stood in front of a highly sophisticated machine that looked like it could launch me into space.  The uber scale was capable of measuring body mass and fat of each limb individually.  Friday, however, the nutritionist chose the low-tech function, identical to that of a bathroom scale. In few seconds, that felt like 5 minutes, the device registered a 2.9 pound loss!  Not bad for the first week!