Midweek update: The curse of muscle building

So it's been almost a week and a half since I started to mix my workouts up a lot and focus a lot on weight lifting and strength training!

I have been doing a good amount of cardio too, but 50% of my workout is now strength/resistance training involving dumbells and the resistance machines too! Working on legs, chest and arms.

It's feeling amazing! But it's very hard to look at the scales now...because with all the muscle work I am packing on a good chunk of muscle weight...

I know that I'm getting fitter and losing fat because my clothes are feeling looser and I can 'feel' how much fitter I'm getting, but the scales are very confusing obviously...I've put on a pound since Friday, but I know that isn't a reflection of my weight loss. It's likely I've probably lost a couple of lbs of fat and put on a couple of lbs in muscle. I'm hoping that if I keep going the 'newbie' muscle gains will slow down and my actual weight in numbers will drop again.

I'd like to focus more on how I look now that I've gotten rid of a large chunk of my weight, but the scales are still very much where the evidence is shown in numbers. 

I'll just have to bare the depressing scales and focus on how much fitter and stronger I'm getting :) having said that...this Friday it'll be 4 weeks til my 25th birthday, and right now I'm still 9lbs away from my goal for that date...

Weigh in day on Friday I can hopefully at least lose a lb, that way I'll be posting the same weight as last week...except this time it'll be more muscle than fat haha!