that pleasant feeling that your jeans are getting a little bit loose for you

OK, here are some more weight loss and diet ramblings from Ukmedix News. Have you ever considered that you should not weigh yourself at all? People trying to lose weight often get on the scales every single day or sometimes even more than once daily and try and track each and every movement in their weight, but at Ukmedix News we think that’s a bad idea and here’s why.

If for example you drink a litre of water you should know that it weighs 1kg and therefore your weight can fluctuate throughout the day by this much or even more depending on when you eat, drink and use the bathroom. Nutritionists say that you should weigh yourself exactly at the same time every day, (ideally when you wake up) but the reality is that even this method of gauging whether you are losing or shedding weight is not our hundred percent accurate from a daily perspective.

If you really want to weigh yourself you really should weigh yourself once weekly at exactly the same time, but if you really think about it who needs weighing scales anyway? After all if you are losing weight you will start to get that pleasant feeling that your jeans are getting a little bit loose for you, and your family and friends will start to make comments about your appearance. You don’t really need a set of scales to inform you whether your weight loss efforts are working or not.

Also by concentrating on the number that the scales give you can mean that you lose the big picture which is to eat healthfully and properly all the time and not to get back into bad eating habits because you have lost 1kg in weight.

Another problem which is experienced by people who start exercising and dieting at the same time is that they don’t actually lose weight because their muscle mass is increasing at the same time as the fat mass is decreasing. Therefore when they get on the weighing scales they feel demoralised when in fact they are in much better shape.

So don’t become a slave to the weighing scales, keep it real, think long term and eat healthily.