No scale for 30 days

I am currently on a challenge with a friend, and other heath junkies, on myfitnesspal to not weigh ourselves for 30 days, or until August 19th.

I really like this challenge and here are the reasons why:

When I first started this "change" or "journey" back in February I weighed myself once a week on Tuesday for 3 weeks. On my third week I weighed in more.. or perhaps I didnt have a weight loss at all, and that threw me off. It threw me off my game, my focus and my motivation. And honestly I think I weighed what I did because the Saturday before I ran/walked 2 miles in a race here in town and it was the only form of exercise I had contributed to my weight loss. (Did I mention that I weighed myself on that Sunday after the race?)

Yes... I thought that from running and burning like 400 calories that I should have lost a little extra. But shock! I was up in weight. It was not because I had done anything wrong, what was wrong was my thinking that one day I was going to drop 5 pounds and not hold any water weight. Yes, I know silly right? Well I know this now and I know my weakness from last time.

So I quit, needless to say and I gained back the 7Ib I lost, plus 7 more. 14 pounds gained in less than 2 months. I don't know how I did it, but I did.

Now I have a new and thoroughly understand able motivation to keep off the scale this time. I have incorporated more exercise into my weight loss this time so I know it will help. But I don't want to get discouraged about not losing every week because I'm retaining water. This way its all about how I feel in my cloths, how the tape measure looks during the weekly "weigh-in" instead of the number on the scale and most importantly, how I feel in my body.

Let me just say I feel great! I feel empowered, I feel smaller all ready, and I feel strong for keeping to my word.

Am I smaller? I dont know, I havent even measured myself to see, and I honestly don't care at this point. At this point its not about me, its about strength vs weakness, and by my count I'm 5 up.

Strength:5

-1. First day I got up to run
-2. Second workout at 6:50 AM
-3. Going out to eat my family and eating my per-calculated sandwich over Mexican.
-4. Working out sat, on my rest day
-5. Coming home from a relaxing day at the pool and immediately lacing up my shoes to run.



Weakness: 1
-1. Walking during a running interval

Bring on the sweat!

♥