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Office Fitness: Forget The Scale

Hi, I’m home office fitness expert Scott Tousignant here with another guest post to help you increase your productivity and improve your quality of work while improving your health. If you missed any of my previous guest posts you can find them at the following links…

Time Efficient Cardio, Stretch Away The Stress, and Fun Challenge.

Today we are going to discus how you measure fitness success. Do you rely on the scale to provide you with feedback? If so, how do you react when you see that the numbers on the scale don’t budge even though you ate really well throughout the week and exercised daily? Do you become frustrated? Do you give up?

That’s the problem with only using one tool to measure your success. Fat loss or maintaining a healthy body weight is only one of the benefits of living an active lifestyle especially when you are a busy entrepreneur. When fat loss is your only reason for participating in a fitness program or eating well it can become easy to get discouraged and throw in the towel.

Many of the benefits from living a balanced lifestyle are difficult to measure, yet they can have a significant impact on your happiness and fulfillment. For example, the increase in energy that you experience as a result of eating well and exercising will have a positive impact on the quality time that you spend with your family. You will be able to keep up with your children and desire to be active with them rather than plop yourself on the sofa after a hard day in the office. Your increase in energy will have a positive impact on your work in a variety of ways and your customers will feel it as well. You will notice that your mood improves when you are active and you adopt a more positive outlook on life.

The confidence that comes from living an active healthy lifestyle is one of the greatest benefits. It really can’t be measured but it can be felt and seen. I sure notice it with the Fat Loss Quickie members. I see it on their blogs where their passion and excitement shine when they use video. I can hear it in their voices when they record their podcasts or teleseminars. I can see it in their writing, which becomes even more creative. I can see it in the way that they put themselves out there and attract great customers and joint venture partners. I can see how others respond to them and want to network with them more.

As you continue to adopt a healthy active lifestyle you will notice that you can get a lot more done in less time during your workday, which frees up more time that you can devote to your family and doing the things that you really enjoy in life.

A scale simply can not measure these incredible successes that you achieve. To throw in the towel and give up simply because you have not noticed a significant change in the number that is displayed on the scale would have a significant impact on your business and quality of life.

Fitness was never designed to lose weight. Fitness was designed for fun. Allowing you to express yourself. To put your body in the state that it desires. To help your brain function optimally. Focusing your fitness efforts strictly on weight loss is a recipe for disaster. Put the fun back into fitness and celebrate the successes associated with it, such as increased confidence or more energy to play with your kids.

I know that Fat Loss Quickie members aren’t afraid to celebrate successes like that. They show it on their blogs and in their tweets. They are proud of the impact that physical activity is having on all areas of their life and they want to encourage others to embrace this balanced and healthy lifestyle.

I encourage you to embrace the active lifestyle and see first hand how your business flourishes and your life becomes charmed. I hope that you have enjoyed my guest blog posts this week and that they have inspired you to incorporate home office fitness into your busy day. I look forward to building upon our new relationship and becoming a source of motivation as you create the life that you deserve.

You ROCK! Enjoy the experience,

Scott Tousignant