Don’t use the scales

When it comes to los­ing weight you obvi­ously need to know how much you weigh and then you fol­low that up by weigh­ing your self again to see if youve lost any weight. This is the com­mon way of know­ing if youve lost any weight. This can how­ever be neg­a­tive and cause prob­lems when your try­ing to lose weight fast.

The prob­lem with hav­ing the scales out is that as you lose weight your prob­a­bly going to be obsessed with weigh­ing your self to see if youve lost any­thing and if you havnt then it could result in you con­sid­er­ing giv­ing up or not believ­ing in your self. The scales will most likely plague you in the back of your mind if you know they are there so by not using them and putting them out of the way you wont be tempted to use them.

Another issue with using the scales is that when your try­ing to lose weight and your work­ing out (or not) you might lose weight but theres also a good chance that your going to gain mus­cle. A key point in this is that mus­cle weighs a lot more then fat and if you do gain mus­cle the scales could actu­ally show that youve gained weight when although this is true you might of lost weight but you might of gained mus­cle at the same time and the scales wont show this only your over­all weight.

So instead of using the scales to weigh your self and not know­ing exactly how much weight you have lost and how much mus­cle you have gained you should use other com­mon sense fac­tors such as mea­sur­ing your waist and chest with a tape mea­sure and even pick­ing up on small indi­ca­tions such as if your clothes fit you better.

Chuck your scales away and get los­ing weight!

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