Progress Picture and Update!

June 10th, 2013 was the date that I said enough with this! I am going to stop "trying" to lose weight and start losing weight period. I started up my Lazy Girl Diet Instagram , took my before picture and haven't looked back. Instagram and the #fitfam have proved to be one of the best support systems so far. It's inspiring and motivational to scroll through the pictures on there. I may have to make an entire blog post about it in the future. For now, I would like to share with you my progress thus far. It's been just over 5 weeks since June 10th. I've already lost 1.5" on each thigh, 0.5" around my waist and I can see a significant difference in my body. I've lost 5 pounds and definitely gained some muscle because my body fat percentage has gone down.  I don't know what I started with, but it is now 36.8% which is obviously still way too high. Below is the picture I posted on instagram. Wow, what a difference 5 pounds can make when it is the right 5 pounds. It is apparent that I lost fat and gained muscle! I couldn't be happier with this 5 week progress.

Onward I go! P.S. This is the book I'm reading right now (Click it and you can read the first few pages on Amazon!):

Why you Shouldn't Trust the Scale

Of course, there are quite a few reasons you shouldn't use the scale alone as a tool to gauge your progress. However, I am only going to talk about one of those reasons. My scale was literally lying to my face. I was using one of the old style scales and it would give me different readings. I got tired of it acting up, so I went and bought a snazzy new digital scale. I also had suspicions because every time I would be weighed on a doctor scale it said I weigh more. Well, it turns out that my old scale was being too kind and was telling me that I weigh 6 pounds less than I really do. That doesn't mean that I didn't still lose those three pounds last week. It does mean that my starting weight was 6 pounds higher. Talk about a low blow. My starting weight is actually 193 pounds and I am now 190 pounds.  Rather than 187 and 184. Yes, it really sucks but it doesn't mean anything when I think about it. If I hadn't found out soon enough then it may have affected me more drastically . Even then, I still have my progress pictures and my measurements to fall back on. Those will never lie to me! So the moral of the story is, gauge your progress using mutliple tools and you are less likely to go awry when one gets messed up or is less than your desired result. You can also gauge it on how you feel as well. I took pictures, measurements, and I'm using the scale. I also feel so much better already.