Had a huge success last week! Not only did my Body Fat % FINALLY go down, but I managed to gain 6lbs of muscle!! YAY!! I was mildly discouraged when the scale had said 187.7, but the good news was the other numbers!
See, this very reason is why you can't define yourself by the number on the scale. Most scales cannot measure things like body fat and water and muscle mass! And muscle weighs more than fat. Now, if you are overweight don't step on the scale and say, "Oh, that's just muscle," because that's not honestly the truth. And telling yourself that is you just making an excuse to stay in the same lifestyle you've been living. There is also something called "Fit Fat". Sure, you may have great physical fitness, be able to run long distances, or play sports at a competitive level, but you are still carrying around an extra 30-ish lbs that your body doesn't need. Again, it all goes back to your nutrition! You can live in the gym, but if you're not eating clean, you're wasting your time because your body will never show you the results you want.
Anyway, I was super excited about my numbers. This past week being thanksgiving and having different things in my house that I normally wouldn't may affect my numbers this week. Things like stuffing and GF Apple Pie and I even managed to find GF donuts (there were 6 and I rationed 2/day. at 180cal each, I was comfortable with 360 cal from treats for those days) I did work to keep my water up still and my meals as fuelling as I could even with the treats. But they're all gone now, so no matter what the scale says, I'm now back on track so I'm not going to stress too much about it.
Now for the less exciting news. While the win on scale was awesome, but I've now had a physical setback. I've managed to re-injure my knee. Apparently even doing modifications, if you're not wearing your knee brace during Fit Club, you're likely to get hurt again. Today I woke up with the side of my knee bruised and very tender to the touch. I called my massage therapist and she's referred me to my Doctor. She's good, but she's not a Doctor. So I've made an appointment. I spent today resting it and have had it elevated. Now I'm off to ice it. I may be off it again for another month, but this time I'm not going to let my fitness fall behind. October was very frustrating. I will do everything that I can to keep working out what I can. If that means that I do my fitness on my own, then I will schedule time in my day to get that done. I need to do what I can to not let myself get to that place where I want to start punching walls again. And there's lots I can do! I can still keep up with my fitness. I can still work my butt, my core, my entire upper body. And now that I have a membership to the local fitness centre I can go swimming too! So much available that this doesn't have to keep me down! Mindset, mindset, mindset!
I'm determined that it's not going to bring me down and no matter what, I'm going to keep plugging forward and working hard at doing everything that I can to keep myself on track!
