Weight Loss Tip: The Scale

Healthy weight loss which incorporates exercise, including resistance training, will often see you gain muscle while losing fat. Try not to be overly focused on the numbers on your bathroom scale. Muscle is heavier than fat, so don’t get discouraged if your scale tells you that your weight ‘loss’ is stagnating. Instead, use your mirror and gauge your progress there. Always remember that you’re trying to lose FAT - NOT WEIGHT! ‘Number Chasing’ can lead you down the path of crash dieting which will decrease fat-free mass and increase the likelihood that you will re-gain lost ‘weight’ once the dieting phase is completed. So, stick to your eyes they won’t lie.