Measuring Your Body

The bathroom scale can be misleading as so much of our bodies are made up of water(about two-thirds!) The best way to track your progress is to measure! Then you have something to go on other than the scale. Weighing yourself can be detrimental to motivation if you are not seeing the progress you want to see. By measuring yourself you ensure to have a baseline that you can refer to.

First buy a measuring tape.

I use the Balance From one pictured here:

I like this one because it makes it easy to measure yourself!

It slides into itself and has a button to press that retracts the tape for the most accurate self-measuring! *Make sure it is not twisted when you are wrapping it around your waist or other body extremities.

Next choose major areas to measure such as my example below:

Bicep: (R)

(L)

Around Midsection or hips:

Waist: (measuring around the thickest part)

Upper Thigh: (R) (approx ~2 inches down from groin around fattest part of thigh)

Upper Thigh: (L) (approx ~2 inches down from groin around fattest part of thigh)

Above Knee: (R) (approx ~ one inch from knee)

Above knee: (L) (approx ~ one inch from knee)

Around Butt: (around the center, thickest part)

Once you have the first set of figures add them together to get your

Total Inches.

Then measure again (the same locations as before) in a specified period of time (6-8 weeks or even longer if you want to see better results like I did).

Take the difference between the two sets of measurements to get your total inches lost!

July 2014: Total Inches: 215.25

November 2014: Total Inches 199.5

find the difference between the two figures for Total Inches Lost:

Total Inches Lost: 15.75

I waited 4 months because I was working hard and I was determined to see a difference, as you can see I did! I lost about almost 2 inches on each arm, leg, waist, butt, and thighs!

I am glad I stuck with it Mamas. I hope you will too!

Get Measuring!

-Sarah