Non Scale Victories!
Today I have several of my PNP clients and moderators coming to Nashville to participate in the Country Music Half Marathon. They are all excited and ready to run. It will be a great weekend I hope to have pictures next week for the site.
Non Scale Victories (NSV) are more important, to me, than a victory on the scale. When you think about the number on the scale you realize it is simply a reflection of the behaviors you have established in life. Changing bad behaviors into good ones also doesn't always payoff immediately even if it feels right.
When you quit smoking, your lungs don't clear up overnight. You spend weeks coughing stuff up, you get still get winded months from the last smoke because of left over gunk in your lungs, and you don't feel good at first even though you are doing something so much healthier.
The strength training and diet game is the same way. You don't lose the fat overnight, at times the scale barely budges, and even though you are eating healthy foods it doesn't always promise you will "feel" good about them, BUT, you ARE doing something healthy for yourself so you have to look at things that are happening.
Luckily when you diet and exercise you have a multitude of ways to find successes. Smoking too (more money, you stink less, taste buds come back, etc.) but with our weightloss we have clothes fitting better, body tightening up, more energy, inches going down, etc.
As an EXCELLENT example of a NSV, I want to share a post by Britt made in our forums. When I read this yesterday I just smiled so big because stories like this mean my girls aren't just following a program I write. They are LEARNING how to make fitness a part of their life. I love it and this is why I do what I do; to teach others how to LIVE a PHIT lifestyle.
I hade an AMAZING morning workout!
So I get up at 10 of 6 and head to the gym. I see that it's not open yet so I decide not to wait and I strap on the IPOD and get out in the parking lot and start running around. I didn't have any water on me so I couldn't set up the HRM. I eventually am doing this for 30 mins. Then I went in the trunk, took out the yoga mat and put it right on the pavement to do abs. At this point it's now 10 of 7, gym still not open and I need to go home and get ready for work.
And the entire near hour I had approx 20 people sitting in cars or standing chatting in the parking lot watching me and I just kept thinking how awesome I felt to still get my workout in while they wasted an hour doing NOTHING!!!
Not sure how much I burned but the feeling alone was worth 1 million calories.
Way to go Britt and you are so on your way girl!