I’ve harped on this before, but it is worth discussing again.

If you don’t measure, you will never know if you are progressing.

Because often we are too close to see results.

You see yourself every day and may overlook the subtle changes that are occurring.

You see the bad workouts where you don’t have any energy and don’t make any progress and therefore you forget the 6 days before where you did lift more or run faster.

You feel yourself still getting so exhausted by that same workout, but you don’t realize that you are actually pushing harder and doing more.

You DON’T see all the good things, all the progress, because you are so caught in the day to day.

That is why you have to take measurements…Not every day or even week, but every few weeks or months.

Those measurements will help show you all the small forward progress you are making each day. Even on days when you don’t feel like things are going right.

And when you take measurements, don’t measure in only one way.

Choose a few different things to measure to show your success. Because even though your scale weight doesn’t budge that doesn’t mean you haven’t lost fat!

For instance, if you want to lose weight, don’t just weigh on the scale and use that as your only measurement. Take circumference measurements as well.

And I even like to set a few performance as well as “habit” goals as well. These goals let you celebrate other successes that LEAD to you achieving your ultimate goal of weight loss.

For instance, if you set a goal to do more pull ups, you will be working out hard to achieve it. And those workouts to help you do more pull ups will also help you lose weight.

So even if you don’t see huge weight loss one measurement period, if you see yourself getting stronger, you know you are doing all the right things.

Same goes for “habit” goals. Habit goals are goals that you set based on simply DOING the right things. If you do the meal prep you set out to do or workout the number of times you plan to, you record it and even celebrate your success.

Because DOING the right things WILL ADD UP.

Plus it lets you know that you are truly following through with your program. (Often we “think” we are doing the right things when actually we aren’t truly sticking to our program. And then we wonder why we aren’t achieving results. These habit goals make sure we are ACTUALLY doing the right things!)

So if you want to succeed and SEE that success, make sure to start measuring!