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Mental PR and Thoughts on Scale Weight

1/30/2015

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Hey guys! Sorry for being a couple days late on my weekly blog post! I’ve had a lot of thoughts going through my head.

Guess what? I have hit a mental personal record of NOT weighing myself for over a month! Yes, it has been 40 days since I’ve weighed myself. This is huge for me because for the majority of my life, I’ve weighed myself every single day. I took the advice of my coach and decided to ditch that unit of measurement completely for now. I’m in multiple fitness “communities” – on facebook and instagram primarily – and have noticed a HUGE difference of scale weights, body fat percentages, heights, etc. of tons of different women who share that
information about themselves as well as photos. I’ve noticed that the body type I ultimately want to have (for my height) is what I would have previously considered a high scale weight.

I know not to compare myself to others, but I do find it pretty awesome to discover photos of women with physiques I admire and also see their weight/height posted. It’s more tangible evidence of the fact that muscle weighs more and takes up less space than fat. Pretty cool. Every day I’m getting a little less crazy about this stuff. After all, we are more than a shell.

- C

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Mel
1/30/2015 10:28:39 pm

Thats an amazing achievement! I know what its like fighting the scale number. The number should definitely not dictate our happiness! Love following your journey.

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Cait link
2/3/2015 11:24:22 am

Awe thank you so much Mel. <3 It's so awesome to have your support and know that I'm not alone in this! Much love to you!

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Drew
3/16/2015 10:41:15 pm

Thank you so much for this post! The scale definitely won my attitude the other day when I weighed myself after not weighing myself for atleast 4 months. I've been feeling phonomeanal with my workouts, being able to workout for twice the time I was before, and eating more than I'd ever had (while in reason, of course. No more than 1900 most days while burning 500 at least 5-6 days a week.) being 5'2" and seeing 134.5 lbs on the scale last Friday shocked me. I've been really beating myself up about it, 'how could I let myself gain nearly 20 pounds??!' But I kno that that won't help me at all, so I am just going to do a cut in hopes of revealing those muscles under the fat I've gained. If you have any advice or tips for cutting and what types of workouts I should be doing for optimal results, I'm all ears!

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