5%

When I think of how much 5% is, I normally don't think it's much. If I'm shopping and the sale is 5% off I'm not one to think that's a huge amount of savings. 25% is, 50% is even better, but 5%! Bah, that's hardly nothing.

I went to the gym today and was weighed by my trainer on this big spiffy fitness machine thing. This happens every four weeks. I stepped on the scale and much to my dismay the number was not good. In fact, instead of losing a ton (which I was praying for) I only lost 2 pounds. 2 pounds in 4 weeks. I was soooo upset. That is until the big machine spit out a little piece of paper with a bunch of numbers that mean nothing to me. When my trainer read it though she was happy. Turns out that in four weeks I had lost 5% of my body weight in fat mass. I worked that out in my head and all of a sudden 5% seemed like quite a bit. The thing is that I lost 5% fat mass and built muscle mass. And we all know muscle weighs more then fat so that's why the number on the scale seemed higher then what I was feeling. I have four more sessions with my trainer which will bring me to the end of July. On my last session we will do all my measurements and see how many inches I've lost. Then I'm on my own.

So, I have a new feeling for 5%. I love that number!! Doesn't seem so small and meaningless now!!!