Something that I also see a lot of women get frustrated, if they have experienced something similar where they're like, I'm eating more, I'm starting to shrink train, but the scale hasn't changed.

Or I'm actually gaining weight. That's not a bad thing at all, right? Because gaining muscle is going to make your body look different, even if the scale doesn't change, but they're attaching so much emphasis to a number.

That means literally nothing, and it doesn't translate to actually what your body looks like.

A lot of the women fitness people on Instagram that other women might look at and think, oh, I want a body like that, she looks so great.

I think a lot of them weigh more than these women realize.

Like having muscle, you're not this tiny little frail stick. Like, yes, you were going to weigh something on the scale, but you're going to look amazing at the same time.

So it doesn't really matter. And I can say, too, I mean, I feel like the number I see on the scale now probably would have terrified me five, 10 years ago.

I never would have wanted that at that time. And now I literally don't care.

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