The Healthy Living Blog

I'd love you to just chuck out the scales! Seriously. They are not a good indicator of what is happening inside your body. When you weigh yourself, all you are doing is weighing your self-esteem. 

Too often I see people who weight themselves daily, focusing on that number on the scales. They benchmark their entire progress on this single metric, which means that momentum, adherence and further progress all hinges on it.

 IT'S NOT ALWAYS THE WEIGHT

One of the most effective ways to reduce the fear or apprehension toward weight change is to highlight the factors (outside of actual fat loss/gain) that can influence it. I'm going to highlight these below.

WATER RETENTION

This is definitely one of the main culprits. Often, individuals will weigh themselves on Monday morning after a busy and indulgent weekend, only to find that they have added 1-2 lbs. of weight. However, if you
did not adequately hydrate, consumed a little more sodium than usual, these can both lead...