We all do it. I don't care who you are, how much muscle you do or don't have, we all do or have done the same thing. Fight with what I call those little *midget digits* on the scale. That's right, the one's that depict how we'll start our day each morning. The ones that have you enclosed by 3 walls and an open door that's inviting you to walk away but instead we choose to curse it out, step off and back on a hundred times, suck in as much as we can & blow all the air out of us in hopes for it to move down by .2 pounds. Or maybe its 3 walls and a closed door so no one or thing with ears can hear you scream and cry, or eyes that can see those teeny tiny numbers that have us scared to consume even a pill because it will add more numbers to the scale. The fight we have with something that doesn't even know we exist. That thing.
I've been there. I've spun circles over the fact that the scale said one thing but I felt something different. I didn't feel what the scale said and I looked better than it told me I did. Those numbers are JUST NUMBERS. They can't see how we look, can't feel how we feel, can't fit in our clothes the way we do and can't criticize us in the mirror. We bring those negative emotions onto ourselves after we voluntarily step on it for a reading. Its us who start to feel like we're doing something wrong or whatever our regime is stopped working. We need to remember what we're doing, think about the progress we've made, remember where we started & consider the muscle we've built which in turn has been burning the fat we hate. Period. Its a journey and a glorious one at that. We should be happy everyday because although we may stumble, we know exactly what to do to pick ourselves back up & continue going. We know there are friends out there willing and waiting to reach out to support and help us when we need it.
Of course we all want to be at that "goal weight" we set for ourselves when we began, but consider this, would you rather weigh what you set as your goal with more fat than muscle? Or would you rather weigh in a little more than you wanted & have more muscle & fine definition in your body than fat? Um, I'll take #2 please!! I know what it feels like to be lean with no 6 pack & I know what it feels like to gain muscle without the infamous 6 pack. But I still have a flat stomach & somewhere under there is a nice set of muscles waiting to be exposed... AT THE RIGHT TIME. Some people just can't bring those abs out & some do. We are all different. But to be unhealthy with a 6 pack is just not worth it! Fat sits in different places in our bodies and we all burn it off at different rates. I was fortunate to surpass my goal I set in the beginning, but what it gave me was incentive to make new goals & achieve new things with the understanding that the SCALE does NOT know what I look like, how I feel & whether I've lost fat or gained muscle. All it tells me is what the human body I live in weighs and THAT IS IT.
No longer do the numbers bother me. I admit sometimes I'll question it, sure. But I'm not upset over it, I'm not screaming at something that can't even put up a good fight back to make it worth while & I know that whatever that scale says, I am still moving in the direction I need to be every single day to achieve my goals. And I WILL reach them. You can do that too. Don't get discouraged & remember that this is a journey to be enjoyed. Screw the numbers!!! Its the inches in the britches
