We make the decision to start eating healthy and shaping up and then we become obsessed with the scale. I have to admit when I first started my weight loss journey, I would weigh myself 3 or 4 t... We make the decision to start eating healthy and shaping up and then we become obsessed with the scale. I have to admit when I first started my weight loss journey, I would weigh myself 3 or 4 times a day! I have learned that there is a lot more to weight loss and getting in shape then what the scale is saying. We need to understand that if we are weight training we are gaining muscle which can affect what our scale is telling us. Losing inches around our hips and waste will not show up on the scale, but in our clothes. There is a healthy weight (scale number) that we need to be at depending on our age and frame size. When starting a plan for yourself, try to focus more on your clothes size changing. Our scales may say we havent lost much but we could be going down 1 or 2 sizes. As long as we are seeing a difference in our shape and the clothes we are wearing, the scale should just guide us on our healthy weight goal. Remember the scale isnt everything so dont let it discourage you Cori Sachais Swidorsky resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a work at home mom/stay at home mom. Owner of the Informing Women Newsletter and website http://www.informingwomen.com Writes an advice column for a community newsletter, has an inspirational piece being published in Chicken Soup For The Recovering Soul, and has articles published on many work at home, home based business, tips and hints, and parenting websites. Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com Visit Informing Women http://www.informingwomen.com for more tips and articles.