Week Two Weigh In

During the weight loss process it's important to be honest with yourself and others, even if it's hard. It's easy to smile wide and proudly report your weight loss to everyone who will listen, but it's another issue entirely telling people you lost nothing, or worse yet, gained weight. However I believe that's what's missing from the majority of weight loss books and blogs, they don't share the failures. That's what is really important. You don't have to learn how to bounce back from success, but it's incredibly important during your weight loss that you learn how to deal with failure. That said here are my numbers this week, as hard as they are to share with you.

Weight: 283.4
Body Fat %: 51.4
Hydration: 35.2

I didn't lose anything this week; in fact I gained an ounce. However, I'm not going to let this distract me from my goal. See, I finally figured out what I've done wrong every other time I've lost weight. With this revelation a light bulb has come on in my dark, cobweb filled attic; failing is as important as succeeding. It teaches us what we did wrong and we learn from it, growing stronger because of it. I ate poorly towards the end of the week and last night ate as late as 10PM due to some unforeseen issues. It probably affected my bottom line this morning because of that. I also didn't start cardio like I intended to this week.

The body fat number I'm not sure is correct. Without gaining any weight at all it's hard to believe that my body fat went up by 6 percent. That just doesn't happen in a week. I'll probably buy a second scale soon to verify measurements. Either way that's not what's important. Why would that be? Isn't the scale number everything we are working for? No it's not, or it shouldn't be.

See you have to realize that this isn't a diet. This isn't some two month thing for me or 3 month thing for me. Instead it's a change I've made for my entire life and something I plan to integrate fully into myself. If you look at it as I want to lose 20 lbs by next month then a weigh in like today will feel like a crushing defeat with the clock ticking. When you look at it in the span of a much longer time it's a drop in the bucket.

And that's how we all should be looking at losing weight. This shouldn't be a race and it shouldn't be that easy. Look at the bigger picture of your health, the way you feel and that in time if you keep doing what you should the weight will come off. Know that time will pass quickly as it has it's way of doing and that before you know it the task you once thought insurmountable will be almost complete. Have faith and don't give up in yourself just because the scale doesn't say quite what you want.

Learn from it and move on. Focus on your health, doing what you should and your body will take care of the rest.