It's hard to tell if I'm losing weight when I don't own a scale. I keep hiking up the waistbands of my jeans even though they don't seem any more loose than the last time I hiked them up. Although I recognize the move as purely psychological, I keep doing it anyway. I don't know how I could be trimming down when I keep eating chocolate and avoiding the gym. I hate myself for not working out when I should be. It seems I always think I should be doing something other that what I am doing at that moment.