[jayohwhy]

so i've been perfection with regards to being on plan this week-- just because i am trying to remind myself that i want this.

anyway, with working out regularly and staying OP i'm down a little bit. i was a little disappointed until i measured and found that i lost an inch everywhere!

i think that that might be more important to me.

so that leads me to ask

what do you guys value more? inches or lbs?

[tiffany0809]

I'm sure most people will say inches, but I tend to get happier over pounds lost. It takes A LOT for a woman to gain a significant amount of muscle to notice it on the scale, and I just don't believe that I'm lifting enough weight to replace fat with muscle pound for pound. BUT... if I was into super heavy lifting, I would definitely be happier with the inches lost.

[mkendrick]

I know it sounds silly, but I'm significantly more interested in pounds. And it's counterintuitive because people "see" inches, as in the size that we are, and ultimately I care about how I look (besides health and such). But weight is just a number on the scale that we look at in our bathroom and nobody else needs to know it.

Until I get to goal weight, I care a lot more about being 135-140lbs than I do about being X inches. I only casually measure inches when I think about it, I haven't tracked that progress as well as I should have. Maybe I'll start being more enthusiastic about losing a few more inches when I have the number I want on the scale.

[Viviane]

I'm all about the inches! Your weight can fluctuate throughout the day, but your measurements really aren't that fluid.

Congrats on the loss!! Way to go

[skinnylibrarian]

Neither - I used to care A LOT about both pounds and inches (usually pounds more - watching the scale tick down was intoxicating), but it always just sabotaged me in the end. I could be having a really good week, eating well and exercising a good amount, but then for whatever reason the scale wouldn't budge and suddenly I'd feel awful about all the work I was doing. It was never enough, so now my philosophy is if I like what I see in the mirror that's good enough for me!

[stellarosa27]

Both really. Although I weigh every day and only measure about once a month, but I think I'm slower to lose weight than I am to lose inches - since February I've only lost about 6 lbs, but I've lost 14 inches. I was pretty dejected until I saw the inches, then I was like oh eff the scale.