The Scale

The scale and I have a love/hate relationship. When I see the number I want, I love the scale, and want to use it all the time. When the scale doesn't want to show me that number I hate it and want to throw the damn thing away.

Here's the catch the scale is just a number. That number doesn't define me, and the hard work I have but in. It's just a number! I also have to look past the base number. At home I just have a basic scale no fancy gadgets, or readouts, just the weight and that's it. At class we have a Tanita scale that gives you the breakdown of your bmi, fat %, fat mass, ffm, tbw, etc. It's really great to have access to this type of scale to see the differences. You might be up on your number, but did you gain muscle mass, or gain water weight.

Here's my latest weight in comparsion. I weighed in 10 days apart, usually I weigh in every Monday, but with all the slacking I held off a little bit.

My weight went up .8 lbs, but I lost 2.4 lbs of fat mass! I gained 2.2 lbs of water weight, and 1 lb of muscle!

I will take that .8 lbs weight gain any day if it  breaks down to numbers like that. This why the scale is just a number, and have to look past that number.


Last night, I went to the 520 kickboxing class at Kosama. It was a 50 min class including warm-up and cool-down, and I burned 698 calories! It felt great, usually I am around the 550-600 calories per class, but I was kicking it up a notch last night and it paid off.

I love kickboxing class! Punching the bag just makes Monday's not seem so bad. Releases the stress that I have built up, and gives me an hour of me time. I need the me time, I have 4 year old who I love to death, but still need a little time to myself other than work that's no fun, so it doesn't count.

It always feels great when you walk out of class soaked in sweat, knowing you accomplished something.

You can feel sore tomorrow, or you can feel sorry tomorrow....you choose! I choose feel sore any day!