Dieting Tips: Throw Away The Scales!

Any dieter will know how it feels: once a week, possibly more, you stand before your mortal enemy – formally known as the bathroom scales. You step on, holding your breath, and squint at the digits displayed.

The end result is either ecstatic joy (you’ve lost more weight than you thought) or deep depression (when you haven’t), and the latter is almost always guaranteed to send you reaching for the cookie jar – after all, what’s the point?

This love/hate relationship with scales is nothing new, but here’s a radical idea: throw your scales away. Studies have shown, and internet forums can back up, that by ceasing to measure your weight loss in pounds and ounces, you can actually increase your chances of succeeding. It is all too easy to focus on a ‘goal weight’ and lose sight of what you are really trying to achieve.

Losing weight is obviously judged in pounds and ounces, but the point is that this is not something that needs to be measured on a weekly basis. This is because our body weight fluctuates throughout a week, often completely without any dietary intervention.

So while you may see a 3lb weight loss next week and a 4lb weight gain the next, you may not have lost or gained any weight at all. Scales depend on sheer weight alone, and do not take into account muscle gain – which increases your weight – water intake or other factors.

Instead, switching to a weekly measurement of your body using a tape measure. Measure areas such as the thigh, calf, upper arm and stomach.

These measurements will be a true reflection of how you are doing. Confirm these with a weigh-in every six to eight weeks, and banish the weekly scales panic forever.

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