Event #1: My roommate has a new fitness blog.

Event #2: We had our Annual Physical Exam today.

Put those two together and you have me blogging about my weight.

A little background
In August, I started getting skinny. I thought it was just my imagination. And then other people noticed. It came to a point that the standard greeting for me would be “Sarah, you’re so skinny now!”. I was told that at least once a day. Some people were actually alarmed. I thought maybe it was their imagination. But then my pants were getting so loose, I literally felt it ride lower on my waist when I ran across the street. One day, I even managed to easily shimmy out of my jeans.

I couldn’t have lost weight because of my work: I wasn’t stressed. Okay, sure, I was doing some ballroom dancing, but that was just once a week.

Whatever the reason was, this was a good thing, right? I mean, I was losing fat, I thought. So, to quantify my (and other people’s) observtions, I weighed myself. The result was 128 lbs. Perfectly normal. Several weeks later, I bought a new pair of jeans. It told me that I lost three inches off of my waist.

I weight myself again. Still 128 lbs.

Huh.

Fast forward to October 2009
I noticed that I started eating more. I blame my brother’s banofi pie, which I say, without reservation, trumps the Starbucks counterpart. I know many people liked Banapple’s, but I was never really impressed with it, sorry. We stopped our ballroom dancing sessions. I started feeling myself getting fatter. Not in an alarming way, though. My clothes still fit. Yes, even my three-inches-smaller-jeans from August.

People stopped telling me that I was skinny.

November 2009
Today at our annual exam, as I stepped up to the weighing scale, I told myself, “This is it, Sarah. The nurse is going to tell you that you gained weight because of all those desserts you ate last month.”

The nurse said nothing. Instead she wrote on my information sheet:

Weight: 56.5 kg

Wait. That’s in kilograms. I have no sense of weight in kilograms. So I went online and looked for a converter. I tried several converters. The result was the same. I weight 124.3 lbs.

124.3

That’s four pounds less than my weight last month.

WHUT?!

Nutshelling
In August when I was getting alarmingly skinny, my weight remained normal. And yet now that I wasn’t as skinny, I lost weight.

I wish I could tell you what I did to lost weight, but really I can’t. There’s nothing else I can say except: WEIRD.