Non Scale Victory

It's been a bit of a rough past few weeks with me doubting my ability to do this workout/eating program and having a lot of frustrations in life with pretty much everything.  This week I have a nasty cold, so I skipped two days of working out.  Good excuse, right???  It was.  Anywho, today I'm feeling a bit better, so I decided to get back on track and what exercise am I on in the 21 Day Fix Extreme program?  Leg day!!!!  Oh...my...goodness.  I felt like I was going to puke then die!  Still being a little sick must've really kicked my behind, because I was in such sad shape.  The workout was HARD!  VERY HARD!  But, I'm so proud to say that I did each exercise without modifications and I did the complete 30 minutes.  I was so happy!  But there's something I was even more ecstatic about, the fact that I worked out in shorts.  You see, I hate my legs.  They're ugly.  And after having 5 kids, I have far from attractive thighs.  I've always had cellulite since as long as I can remember and I've had saddle bags aka. pointy thighs.  That's where my pregnancy weight goes, straight to the thighs.  But today, for some reason I thought I'd put on my shorts and see how it looked.  Crazy scary idea considering every time I've looked at myself in the mirror when wearing shorts I ended up blind for the next 24 hours from the hideousness.  Okay, not really.  Anyways, this particular pair of shorts had a little hang up going over my thighs.  Pre-baby it slid on just fine.  Post-baby, I had to do that little girly jump/wiggle to get something too small over your a little too large hips or thighs.  Today, I didn't have to do that.  It was so weird, they slid right on!  I was shocked!!!!  Is this the same pair of shorts that had been clinging to my thighs just weeks before?  Why yes it was!  They were loose on my thighs!  Quite loose.  And they looked good!  Now, understand that for me to think a pair of shorts looks good on MY legs is a big deal.  It's a FREAKING BIG DEAL and I'm so happy to say this freaking big deal just happened to me :)  So naturally, I worked out in those lovely shorts and instead of looking at my legs with disgust and shame throughout the workout as I had in the past, I looked at them and smiled with pride.  Damn!  I've got nice legs!!!




That, folks is my non-scale victory.  I hope you're inspired to keep on trucking, because although the scale may not budge you're changing your body's shape.

Happy sweating!