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times a day to see if we have dropped any additional weight
throughout the day. Don’t let that scale turn you into a basket case.
Weighing yourself is important as a starting point but what I would do
is weigh yourself initially then weigh yourself after every 1 to 2 weeks.
I know, sounds like torture but it will prevent you from becoming a
slave to the scale because before you know it, the success of your diet
will rely on the number that scale spits out. That’s too much power for
a little inanimate device to have over your life. You need to realize
that your weight will fluctuate all day every day, that’s a natural thing.
Sometimes you hold more fluid on certain days than others and this
will reflect itself through the scales. Seeing this fluctuation even after
half starving yourself will only make you feel defeated.
The best indication for your weight loss is the way your clothes fit.
You can have 5 different weight fluctuations throughout your day
which makes you feel as though you are not succeeding in your diet
when in actual fact it couldn’t be further from the truth.
Fat is lighter than muscle. Ever notice when you’re cleaning out a pan
filled with fats that it floats to top of the dishwater? That’s because
fat is lighter, so then doesn’t it reason to stand that fat will also be the
lighter of the two?
So imagine to your horror when you’ve gained 2 pounds on the scale
yet you are swimming in your clothes. That’s because you have
gained more lean muscle mass, the attractive, toned type not the
Arnold Schwarzenegger kind. This is great because the more lean
muscle you have the more surface area it covers and the more fat it
can grab and burn as energy because that’s really all fat is, unused
energy just waiting to be burned.
So just remember when weighing yourself, muscle weighs more.
Don’t get worried if you have gained a little especially when you know
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