So, I recently saw an image online that kind of made me rethink how I have been approaching things. It was basically a picture of P!nk and the caption said that she, by conventional medical standards, would be considered obese. She is 5'3" and weighs 160 pounds but is definitely NOT obese by any stretch of the imagination.
It got me to thinking. I know that I tend to obsess over the numbers that show up on the scale but is that really doing me any good? Is the fact that the numbers are going down slowly or see-sawing back and forth something I should be getting upset about? It has in the past. In the past, I have found it incredibly upsetting that my weight fluctuates as much as it does. It seems like the instant I take a day off of the elliptical or eat something that is less than completely healthy that my weight pops right back up again.
So, I've decided to start tracking things a different way. Yeah, I'm still going to keep an eye on my weight because I do have a goal in mind but I'm going to try and put less importance on it. I AM choosing to focus more on how far I can go on an elliptical in a certain time frame. Right now I am capable of doing about 15 laps of 400m each in juuuuuust under half an hour. That's about 6km or like three and some odd miles.
My goal is to be able to go further in that time frame. I've been tracking my weight lifting and the length of time I am doing things like planks and want to see those numbers improving as well. All of these things are real, measurable, and impacted less by my choosing to eat a slice of pizza or an extra cookie once in a while. I DO need to keep weighing in just to make sure I'm decreasing my body mass but I am also planning to focus on other things as well.
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