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!
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Daily Workout: Shoulders
Superset One: 3 sets
Lateral Raises
Inverted Lat Raises
Reverse Crunches
Superset Two: 3 sets
Rear Delt Pulses
DB Full Circle Raises
Arnold Presses
Superset Three: 3 sets
Shrugs
Alternating Upright Rows
Oblique Twists
Set Four: 1 set
Running Presses to failure
Plate Raises to failure
Cardio: 1 hour walk training for Breast Cancer walk
Daily Food Journal:
B – Oatmeal with SF Jelly, 1/2 banana, 9 almonds
L – chicken breast with 1/4 cup of rice and 1/4 cup of black eye peas
S – fruit cup
S – 1 cup of pop corn and 1 serving of turkey breast
D – chicken breast, cottage chz, sugar snap peas with lite miracle whip and hot sauce
S – Fage yogurt mixed with 1 tbsp of natural peanut butter and 1 tbsp of sf jelly (delicious and loaded with protein)
It was awesome to hear of everyone’s inches lost. I was just so proud of each and every person that posted. If you didn’t post but lost inches, I’m proud of you too. I know exactly how hard everyone works and how discouraging the scale number can be but when you can get into a smaller size and only weigh a few pounds less, I’ll take the smaller size any day or the pound loss.
Comment by Kathleen — May 2, 2007 @ 7:42 am
Yay Corinne. Can we celebrate our losses with a pizza party? Just kidding:) However, pre p-n-p days I would have had that type of self defeating behavior!!
Lorie
Comment by Lorie — May 2, 2007 @ 10:20 am
how often should you take measurements? i took my first set monday after easter…
I want to lose fat not scale weight… unless they’re kinda one in the same.
Comment by Angie — May 2, 2007 @ 11:19 am
I have my clients measure once a month. Some do it once every six weeks.
Scale weight and fat loss are not the same because scale weight measures muscle and water among other things. Fat loss is dealing with you losing fat. Of course the scale changes as you lose fat, but it can be decieving and shouldn’t be your main guide.
Comment by phitnphat — May 2, 2007 @ 12:51 pm