Avoid becoming a weigh-a-holic

Many people aiming to get in shape fall into the trap of becoming a weigh-a-holic
While it is important to set yourself fitness goals, it is generally not so good to obsess about how many kilo’s you’ve lost day to day or even week to week.

In general, females can vary DRASTICLY in weight day to day through fluid retention, so this is a very “hazy” way of tracking your progress.

As you exercise, your body will build denser muscle and more capillaries to feed the muscle. It will increase bone density and tendon thickness. These things all contribute to increasing your weight, but in a healthy way.

As you become fitter and loose body fat, you will also be increasing your “lean tissue” mass. You could have lost a kilo of fat, but not see it in the scales as you could have put on a kilo of muscle!

Putting in so much effort, working your body till it hurts and trading your comfortable diet for a more healthy version takes a great deal of motivation. The danger of being a weigh-a-holic is that in spite of all your effort, you may see little to no change in the scales for some time, which can be a very de-motivating thing.

A far better method for tracking your improvement is via girth measurements. Simply take a length of measuring tape and go around a couple of easily recognizable places on your body, such as around the mid-section at the belly button, around the middle of your arm or around your thigh, just below the butt!
Tracking changes in these places on your body will give you a far better picture of your body’s improvement.