As a CPT certified personal trainer (yep I can do it all) I
tell people THROW AWAY YOUR SCALES. They are the enemy of success in a real and
correct program to change your life style and lead a healthy life.
The better way to measure change is how you feel. How your
clothes fit. Eating correctly and proper
exercise will ALWAYS get results.
Chasing the weight number on the scales is, at least in the first few
weeks or months, counterproductive.
For a few reasons but the best one is a pound of loose porous
fat is shaped differently than a pound of tight hard muscle. So as we exercise and eat right the fat goes
away but in the beginning the actual poundage is replaced my adding muscle.
That muscle takes up much less room so we are losing inches
while keeping the same number on the scale.
After a while that effect does change and the muscles get
tighter. The Chest and Butt RISE and tighten. The shoulders pull back and the
belly quits bouncing around as you descend the stairs. The Triceps (the bottoms of your arms) quit
waving at the same time your hand does and your chin is no longer part of your
neck and then you look at the scales… You will see the number going down.
Still not the best way to measure your maintained success as
the reverse of the above tell the story before the scales do. One reasons DIETS do NOT WORK for LONGTERM
weight loss is we eat less to lose and when we hit the target we go back the way
we were and then we get fat again.
So toss the scales, get to the right size. Throw away all the
clothes bigger than that size and when they get tight, DON:T BUY MORE, Get back
to work!
Dan the Trainer man!
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I did weigh in this moring and go to see two things I have not seen in a while. MY FEET!!!!!! So far in about 6 weeks I have went from a 44 waist to a 38 and from 198′s to 185…. The hardest part…ONLY ONE FREE DAY!!!!!