A scale can be often deceptive and is heavy on the mind. It really gets people thinking about their bodies in an immediately negative way if their physical weight did not decrease. The things here that are missing, is that fact that scales do not include anything about age, height, or muscle mass. Fun fact that should be a well know fact: MUSCLE IS HEAVIER THAN FAT!!!! So you could be working out like crazy and weigh the same or possibly even more than when you started working out! This then makes you question all of your efforts and gets you thinking that maybe you are doing something truly wrong.

This is something that I need to constantly remind myself of in my weight loss and just general exercise journey. We need to focus less on weight loss and more on the small successes we create by pushing ourselves. Seriously! Toss your scale out the window, because it is your number one enemy to making you stop your hard work. Like anything, weight is just a number. It does not define you as a person, it just gives you a general measure of mass that again, does not take into account several things like the day of time, bloating, clothes weight, and muscle.

And with this in mind, I realize that I have a problem with this myself. I always question whether if anything is actually changing because we have this idea from social media that these things are immediate and often easy to obtain, but it takes hard work! Just like anything else, it is a process that requires consistent dedication. That is the key! Consistency. Not really consistency in routine per se, but consistency in the progress from day-to-day workouts.

I felt that it would be good to share these ideas and feelings for anyone else who is concerned with this too! It just takes time. But, what you must remember above all is to KEEP GOING! Work for what you want and you will be rewarded! You really will!

What I do to keep going: is to take pictures of myself at least every month. It is hard to recognize our own progress, so pictures or measuring the inches you lose are sure ways to keep you going.