With the meds affecting your body, it probably is best if you focused on exercise instead. I could tell quite recently that my slightly-up weight was really more than slightly up because of the way my clothes fit, and that's due to the decrease in my exercise. It really helps us feel better, hold ourselves better, every thing better.
I like to focus a lot on "core" development-- abdomen and side waist strengtheners and hip strengtheners. We focus a lot on our mid-abdomen, but lower abdomen and the muscles along the sides and even our back are essential for completing this. Add in hip strengtheners, and even just standing around I feel taller, my walks feel taller, my runs feel taller. I rise up instead of slumping into my hip sockets (yes! really!) and along my spine. I just feel better all around. I have a series of yoga poses that help with these. I recommend that everyone who wants to lose weight and feel better about their bodies also does something to work on these areas, because their overall impact on how we feel is disproportionate to their actual physical effect. It is so motivating.
I've been trying to be less methodical and ("lower-case") ocd about recording weight and exercise information, but while being attentive to these things can be healthier for the body, I kind of feel like it's a pathos of the mind that keeps me so hyper-focused on the details. But at the same time, it's a lifetime of learned mental behaviors that have created how I think, and I can't imagine that it will change all that much or any time soon. I can't beat myself up over every little quirk. So, yes, I weigh myself now every *other* day (rather than every day), record my exercise and these things are ritual to me.
Warm weather seems to have reset my appetite and I don't feel those cravings when I know damn well I'm not hungry. That's nice, because in short order I feel better and the scale seems to reflect a more proper weight, if that makes sense. Not like I'm losing weight, I'm just losing that extra pack that comes with eating for the sake of eating. However, I can take advantage of the decrease in cravings and get on with maybe another round of weight loss? I'd really love another 10 pounds off to start. That shouldn't be all that hard?
Recently my barriers have been computer time. I've been writing a lot, to myself and to a friend-- important stuff, definitely-- and next thing I know the morning is gone and I have a choice to do my long yoga or get on with my chores for the day, and these last two days it's been chores. Which is good, but I'm feeling the results of my choices on my body. I'm a slug in the mornings, though, and I tend towards torpor.
This morning I need to get out the door by 11am. I'm going to try to get my "short yoga" (around 5-10 minutes) and a 15-minute run in.