Today I am praising all my girls. Ladies! You worked hard this past month and it certainly showed today. I can’t get over how many inches all of you were racking up this month. I’m SO PROUD OF YOU and it makes me feel great that you are taking to heart the workouts and the eating advice.
A lesson for all of us that these awesome ladies understand: weight loss and fat loss are two completely different things. At PNP we focus on losing fat and we work very hard on seeing the scale for what it is…one way to measure success and not the only way. The real success indicator measurements.
See, if you are losing lots of scale weight but not losing a lot of inches you are losing muscle, water, and a little fat. If the scale is ticking down nice and slow but you are banging out all kinds of inches, then you are losing fat and very little of the other stuff.
Losing fat is the key to making this a lifestyle change. Losing fat is what makes it possible for you to eat more in maintenance, look like a hottie when you are at goal, and keep you around for the next 50-70 years.
Losing scale weight only is not always a good thing. It might feel good to see big numbers drop, but in the end it gets you a lowered metabolism, wasted muscle, and a dehydrated body.
So, for my ladies who listened to and trusted me all month long when I said “just wait until measurement day,” I hope you are riding high and smiling big. You each deserve to celebrate today. Here’s to another Phit-N-Phat month!