If you weigh in at 140 pounds and then work your bootie off and get on the scale the next week with it reading 140, devastation follows. We want that number to be lower. But what if we lost 2 pounds of fat and gained 2 pounds of muscle? The scale can't possibly tell us that. So why do we really care what it says? In addition, muscle weighs more than fat. When you are getting in shape and toned, the number on the scale may not go as low as you wanted it to. So if we are more trim and fit and can get into our jeans we wore when we were 20, why do we care what the number on the scale says?
We should focus on our level of heath and fitness. If we are eating healthy and exercising, getting our bodies to where we know they can be, DON'T PAY ATTENTION to what the scale says. As we make goals, we shouldn't say, "I want to lose 6 pounds." We should say, "I'd like to lose 6 pounds of fat and get my lean bod mass to xxx."
When all is said and done it's how we feel and how our pants fit that matters, not the number on the health-o-meter!
Pick specific goals like reducing your body fat percentage or a new faster mile time and focus on those goals each day. Forget the scale and determine your own personal measures for success, do your part and results will follow.
