Ms. Skinny Fat Is So Wrong

Here I am fixing to rant about something a client told me today. She had a weigh-in and “only” lost .4lbs. Being a Phit-N-Phat girl she knew that she had:

1. lost fat and not muscle
2. made great choices all week with food
3. exercised like a queen

She was a little disappointed. It’s easy to be being a woman in a society where the stupid scale is the #1 indicator of success. I totally understand the want and need for big numbers. BUT, what infuriates me is how her weigh-in person handled the situation. Rather than looking at her food journal and seeing that she is doing all the things you need to do to lead a healthy lifestyle, this fool tells her…

“Well, honey, it doesn’t matter if you are building muscle or losing weight …. a pound is a pound so if you are overweight by 50 lbs then you are overweight.”

Say what? This is wrong on so many levels I can hardly see straight enough to type this message.

1. So you think a pound of fat and a pound of muscle are the same? I tell you what, I’ll take weighing 133 pounds and wearing a 4/6 over weighing 125 pounds and wearing a 8/10 any damn day of the week.

2. I dare a Skinny Fat to go head to head with my girls who still have 30, 40, and 50 pounds to lose. In fact, my girls eat right and exercise so hard (post if you are one of them) that I would put my money on them against a Skinny Fat doing the same routine any day. Case in point, my girl Amber (you go girl) is nuts in the gym and she has an undisclosed amount of weight to lose. She can squat and lunge circles around half of the Skinny Fats I know.

3. This fool lady discounted a whole week of hard work, determination, and sweat my girl put in the gym. Skinny Fat does this all in the name of the scale not moving as fast as she thinks it should. Maybe she needs to come to PNP and look over some of my blogs about the scale.

Argh! Ladies (and gents), here’s the last paragraph of MY email to my girl to help her see the real deal and not the old school dribble she heard from Skinny Fat today…

As long as you are working hard and eating right it will all take care of itself in the end…it might not be on your timetable and it might not be instant gratification each week, but it will happen. You just can’t let the scale and that blowhard get into your mind. Stay strong and focused on the task at hand. Be proud of all that you accomplished with eating right and exercising. That stuff is a whole lot more important because it produces results. I know you, XXX, and you wouldn’t be a part of my team if you were not in this for the long haul. We are all part of this because we want a better, fitter life for ourselves and not a quickie fix that doesn’t last a lifetime.

I then told her to stay strong and eat a piece of grilled chicken tonight.

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Today’s Workout: Shoulders

Superset One: 3 sets

Lateral Raise

Overhead Presses

Push Ups and then Leg In and Outs during the rest period

Superset Two: 3 sets

Seated Rear Delts
Upright Rows
Close Grip Push Ups then hand to ceiling crunches during the rest period

SS Three: 3 sets
Plate Raises to front (I finally went up in weight today Woohoo!)

Weighted Roman Twists
High Cable Pulls

Cardio: A Test Run of an Elliptical Routine for 30 minutes that is leg heavy.

 Interval Style consisting of Side Shuffles, Ali Twists, Walking Squats, Walking Lunges, Bench Squats weighted, and High Knee Runs. It will eventually be a HIIT Routine with 5 min. warm up and 5 min. cool down and 20 minutes of loaded work. Sort of like the routine from two days ago except the intervals will be low enough intensity to do for a full minute.

Daily Food Journal:

B – 1 cup of Fiber One with 1/4 frozen cherries, and 1/2 cup of skim, 1 hard boiled egg

S – EAS Shake and a banana

L – Tofu Grills Hickory Flavor, green beans, sweet potato

S – 1.5 cups of fresh fruit
S – 2 cups of lite popcorn and 2 slices of organic beef jerky
D – Thai Tuna on lettuce and snap peas 

S – Fage Yogurt with SF Jelly and Splenda