You are not defined by a number
If you compare a picture of me from high school to a picture of me now in college, there really isn’t much of a difference. My body size still looks about the same size.
When I was in high school, I mostly shopped at the same stores and I always got the same sizes. I never had to try things on. As I have gotten older, I have branched out and started shopping at lot of different stores.
Once I started branching out into other stores, I realized that not everything is made the same way. Every store sizes things differently. I remember the first time that I tried on a pair of jeans that didn’t fit, I went into panic mode because I thought I was gaining weight. However, It was simply because another store had made items much smaller than what I was used to. Now, if I go back to that original store, I can still wear the same sizes.
My point is, so many women want to be a size 2 or a size 4. So many women are scared to say what size jeans that they wear because they feel like a number defines them. This is not true, ladies. A size extra small at one store could be the size medium at another store. Some stores make things big, some stores make things small.
A very similar scenario is the number on the scale. I have been lifting weights for about 11 years now. I have probably gained about 20lbs if not more since I started lifting. But I have gained 20lbs of muscle, not 20lbs of fat.
At first, that was really challenging for me to look at the scale to see that it weighed so much more than what I was used to. But deep down I knew that I was exercising. I knew that I still looked okay. I knew that I was eating properly. My body was just developing more muscle. It was changing, but in a very good way.
Ladies, do not let a number define you whether it is your dress size or the number on the scale. Instead just look at yourself. If you look at 10 different women that all weigh 130lbs, it is going to be distributed differently on every woman. Don’t be so hard on yourself and forget the numbers.
