I learnt the hard way: SAVE YOURSELF!!

So, you probably clicked onto this out of curiosity, right? What on Earth could I be talking about? Well, it's been said time and time again but some people, people like myself, learn the hard way.. Learn the hard way about taking the number on the scales as the be all and end all of weight loss success.

On January 14th my 'new year resolution' began; a little late.. I know, but better late than never, right? Anyway, initially I did no exercise and just controlled my calories, 2 weeks in I'd already dropped 5.3 kilograms. WOW! I gather a lot of that was water weight, none the less I was happy. Another 2 weeks went by which brought me up to a month and I'd lost 2 more kilos. For a while I was thinking that weight loss was the easiest thing ever and legitimately wondered why I hadn't started sooner.

Well, 2 weeks ago I decided to start exercising on a daily basis, I figured if anything it would speed up my weight loss. I was wrong, so very wrong. Weighing myself everyday had been the best thing initially because I could see the progress in the numbers, however once the exercise started up the scales began fluctuating like crazy. Obviously I wasn't gaining fat, more like retaining water, gaining muscle, etc. but since I relied so heavily on weighing myself I became quite upset when the scales didn't reflect what I wanted them to.

Once I got into the swing of things in regards to the exercise over these past 2 weeks I can honestly say I have noticed 10000x more positive changes in my body with no scale reflection, opposed to when I lost weight sitting on my *kitten* obviously with a constant drop in weight.

Please, please if you were like I was and you're getting discouraged because you're not seeing the scale move walk away and know that your body is changing in bigger and better ways than you could imagine. Also, I learnt the importance of measuring yourself, this will give you a more accurate idea of if you're heading in the right direction.