Sabor de Soledad

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fitvillains:

For those of you who are still putting more emphasis on the number on the SCALE and not your overall progress: STOP.

I often get requests for exercises that tone certain areas, but from people who don’t want to gain muscle. It doesn’t work that way. Toning IS gaining muscle. But gaining muscle does not mean gaining size. Many women have an unnatural fear of the word gain so the marketing world uses words like toning, tightening, flattening, slimming, shave inches etc. ALL of these words mean gaining muscle & losing fat. 

Muscle is more dense than fat: pound for pound it takes up less room. You can lose fat & inches without the scale moving. You can get the body you want without losing weight.

The purpose of this photo is to visually demonstrate why the scale doesn’t matter if you’re training hard & SEEING results. If you feel like your balloon gets bursted each and every time you step on the scale, you NEED to change the way you think/feel about it or give it up all together. The scale can be a valuable tool to check in on your progress when you’ve got loads of weight to lose, but beyond that it doesn’t tell the whole story and does not tell the whole story.

In other words, at the end of the day, the numbers do NOT matter.

Pic via Sean Light - BodyRock.Tv Host

^ This.

I’m starting to re-think weight loss and my body image. More to come on this later but this photo above is giving me a lot to think about.

I love seeing stuff like this. Every time I run, I feel my legs and how muscular they’ve become, and I know that while the scale hasn’t moved much in the last six months, I’ve made a lot of substantial change. Now to add WEIGHTS to this entire routine…!