Screw the scale! Fitness blogger proves that weight is just a number
Fit and healthy has many guises, but all too often we think that being fit and healthy means being slim and weighing nothing, and that's just not the case.
The recent campaign to be 'strong, not skinny', is a great one, and it's a mantra to follow (although there is nothing wrong with being slim if that's your natural frame), but we still put pressure on ourselves to lose that final few pounds, to reach a certain 'goal' weight. Ask any of the Biggest Loser contestants; this is not a mindset that works.
A photo fitness blogger, Kelsey Wells of My Sweat Life, posted on Instagram yesterday has gone super-viral because of one thing: her weight. Luckily, this is not a fat-shaming or a look-at-her-six-pack-she-had-a-baby-yesterday post, it's a three picture in one image that shows her at different stages of her fitness program, and it marks her weight in each one.
The first pic shows her beautiful figure two weeks after having a baby; the next at the 'goal weight' she set herself to fit into her 'skinniest jeans'; and the final, healthy, happy, fabulous image is Kelsey as she is now, weighing only 5 pounds less than after having her baby.
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Her point? "According to my old self and flawed standards, I would be failing miserably. THANK GOODNESS I finally learned to start measuring my progress by things that matter -- strength, ability, endurance, health, and HAPPINESS. Take progress photos and videos. Record how many push-ups you can do, ect. And if you can, your BFP -- there is only a 5 lb difference between my starting and current weight, but my body composition has changed COMPLETELY. I have never had more muscle and less body fat than I do now. I have never been healthier than I am now. I have never been more comfortable in my own skin than I am now. And if I didn't say #screwthescale long ago, I would have gave up on my journey. So to the little teeny tiny voice in the back of my head that still said "?wtf is this- not 140!???" last week when I stepped on the scale, I say SCREW. YOU. And I think you should probably say the same to your scale too."
Do you agree with her message? Are you ready to say screw you to your scales?