The scale can be a tricky whore

How many of you get on a scale daily? How many of you have ended up on the floor (after seeing a # on the scale that did not match up with your workout efforts) in a crying snotty mass, kicking and writhing around as if you were trying to pass a kidney stone? I too have done this, more than I care too admit.

Let me give you some advice, throw it away, burn it, give it to your mother-in-law. Right - mine is still sitting in my bathroom and I get on it every morning. It's a bad habit but if you can decipher what that # means, you can gain control of how it affects your mental state.

First off, if your eating like a fat ass, sitting on the couch like a fat ass and doing nothing to make your ass less fat then decipher the # on your scale to mean you are a fat ass and need to change your lifestyle. Put the fork down and get yourself to a gym.

If you are working out 3-5 days per week and doing more weight training than cardio and eating a clean diet, chances are the # on the scale is moving slow or barely moving at all. There is a reason behind that.

We all know that cardio training and decreasing your caloric intake will cause your body to burn fat. Which in turn will make that scale show a lower # and make you smile.

Did you also know that if you lift moderately heavy weights (full body) about 3 times a week (along with about 3 days of cardio) the scale will most likely just sit there or quite possibly even show a gain? 

WHAT??? Doesn't that just suck the farts right out of your butt.

Here is the science behind that - MUSCLE WEIGHS MORE THAN FAT - so although you are burning fat, you are also building muscle. What you will notice is that although the # on the scale isn't dropping as fast as you think it should, you are losing more overall inches. Your are dropping sizes in clothing faster than scale is dropping its #. I mean isn't the scale just a #? I have had a # in my mind as a goal weight since "The Baby" was born. (The Baby is 9 months old today), I created a # as a goal to be at before my Mommy Makeover, but I have quickly realized that I might not get to that #. Now if I wasn't a weight lifter, if I was purely a cardio queen then I would get to that #, in fact I would already be there.

But I am not, I am a weight lifter. I like the feel of the weight in my hands, I like to feel my muscles getting stronger. I like the way my legs feel after going through a leg workout with Big Daddy. That is who I am and that's cool. I can adjust my mental state to not being so focused on a # on a scale and instead be happy how I can see my body literally re-shaping itself with the use of weights.

As of today, I have lost 40lbs since The Baby was born, I have never really counted inches at all but it must be alot cause I have dropped 4 sizes since giving birth. I am a small or medium in the Victorias Secret Pink Line - that's a big deal to me. When my milk came in- my bra size was a 40EE - I am now wearing a 34DDD but I prefer a 36DD. In July I bought a pair of Miss Me jeans in a 32, this past weekend I tried on a pair in a 28 and could have went to a 27. I opted to get some bad ass UGG booties instead but the key here is that I could have bought jeans in a 27 and wear them.

So that is how I deal with THE TRICKY WHORE, otherwise known as a scale. In fact I like to think I am the one that is tricky, not the scale.