Why the Scale Does Not Matter and Why It Absolutely Does.
Here is a google search for Why the Scale Does Not Matter. Go look for a minute or two. I will wait.
Trying to lose weight can be extremely difficult and a huge mind fuck even if you have the correct tool set in place — meaning you understand that you need to have a fat metabolism. If you have more than 50 pounds to lose amplify that my 100x.
When the Scale Does Not Matter
In the day to day fight the scale does not matter. If you try to correlate your activities to what the scale displays you will go crazy. Trust me. You will.
What the extra slice of cheese the reason retained water and gained that pound overnight?
Weight yourself 24 times in 24 hours. Try to make sense of what you see.
If you have 20 pounds or so to lose and you are hitting the gym hard, watching what you are eating (focusing on a low carb diet) then the scale might not matter. The reason is you might shift some weight from fat to muscle. See that search I reference above if you have not yet. That totally makes sense.
When the Scale Does Matter
If you have 50, 75 or over 100 pounds to lose. The SCALE does matter.
You are not going to convert 50 pounds of fat to muscle. Just not going to happen. You must get your diet inline and even try fasting.
The key is not to weight yourself a lot. Weekly might be ok. I personally like weekly to track to see if my fasting is working. But even monthly would be ok. But over the long term to you reduce your body fat and the scale does help tell you that, granted as a blunt instrument.
My plan and recommendation is that once I get with 20 pounds of my ideal weight will get a Dexa scan to find out my body fat to bone density ratio. Then I will turn my attention to increasing my muscle mass and getting my body fat % down to around 15%.
Thank you for reading and follow along as I document and share my weight loss journey.
Terry
