Check the balance on the scale BEFORE you jump on...

So it is probably a very good thing that I did not get a chance to write yesterday, other wise it would have been a negative blog and I would not have found the scale incident so amusing. 
It was another challenging week at work. One of my responsibilities is HR and anyone in HR knows that when it rains in the HR world it pours. I cannot share the details of the issues I've been dealing with, but I can say that they have been time consuming and draining my energy. So by the time we got home last night I was ready to get on my PJ's and eat dinner in bed, however as a mom, that's not always possible. We had made plans to go to the park with a friend of Isabel's from school and her mom. Instead of PJ's I got a shower instead. 
Now I had consciously decided at the beginning of this Journey that I would not weigh myself throughout - only for the purpose of tracking and reporting my progress on a monthly (4 week) basis. But it had been two weeks, I've been so dedicated and I had sweat so much earlier in the day during my private with Renee, with that alone I should have dropped 5 lbs. So I decided to jump on the scale and boost my spirits only to find that the scale reported back, that I had GAINED 5 POUNDS!
I'm not entirely proud of what happened next, but bear in mind I was tired and stressed. I flopped down on the bed and started to cry. WTF, how could I have gained? NO change, I would have excepted, but gained? I let myself cry and feel sorry for myself for about 10 minutes. Sometimes you just need to cry it out. When 10 minute were up I got up and back to getting myself ready for the evening.
Then the pity turned to frustration. Stupid scale, why did I weigh myself...  there's no way, it couldn't be right... then back to the scale I went ready to prove it wrong. I really don't know how I was going to do that, until I looked down and saw that the needle without me on it was just past 5 lbs! Yes, I am embarrassed to say that once I rebalanced the scale I had actually LOST almost a pound! 
A great example of how hard we can be on ourselves! So I stopped to breath and regroup and reminded myself that this is a slow process. I am looking for long term results not a quick fix. I have definitely had more wins than losses over that last 2 weeks, even with work challenging me to deviate back to my old comfortable ways.