Unless you’re obese simply losing weight SHOULD NOT be your main measure of success. In fact, if you’re at a healthy weight, it is a horrible way to determine your progress. You need to be tracking your body-fat percentage and/or your measurements at the hips and waist. A few examples why…
Photo credits to “muscle makes all the difference”: http://www.navelgazingblog.com.
Basing your results on pounds alone will put you in a mentally destructive state. Your appearance won’t match your results. A diet/training program that is causing you to lose muscle is simply damaging your metabolism . Base your results on performance gains like doing more pull-ups, your clean and jerk one rep max, your 400 meter sprint time, etc… How your clothes fit is a reasonable way as long as you keep in mind that the water weight you hold is going to vary from day-to-day. Spend your time, energy, and emotion on tracking things that actually matter and are indicative of your health and wellness like your blood pressure, cholesterol, and fasting blood sugar levels… Just something to keep in mind for all you people basing your self worth on a truly worthless number. 🙂 … Keep calm, WOD on, and God bless.
-Coach Barnett
CrossFit FMS 
Hello! Would you please post a link crediting the “muscle makes all the difference” before and after photo to its proper source? This is a photo of me and my progress from personal training. It’s from my blog, NavelGazingBlog.com! Thank you!
Hey Allie! I would be happy to. Which picture are you talking about and what link would you like me to add to it? I found most of these on Google image search.
Thanks so much! It’s the photo that’s second from the bottom, with 143lbs to start and then 148lbs once I gained muscle and lost fat. Please just link to http://www.navelgazingblog.com. I really appreciate it!