Your Weight

So if you can see in pictures that you are looking better, you can see your measurements going down and you are getting stronger, your clothes fit better, you know you’re losing fat, do we need to use weight at all? The answer is of course no.

If you don’t like looking at the scales, or you have a bad relationship with them or whatever else - then you don’t have to. However, some people do like using the scales and if that works for them, who am I to discourage that. Each to their own.

Weighing yourself does have its place. If you are weighing yourself reliably, then it will give you information. You may be able to see some steady weight loss on the scales before you see changes in circumferences or in a picture. And as long as you are weighing yourself reliably, then that’s encouraging and good progress.

When you are trying to lose weight, lose body fat, you are going to be in a calorie deficit, and following the targets I give you, you would expect to be losing around 1lb of fat a week. So you would expect over time to see change on the scales.

If two months in, you weigh the same, you have been taking consistent, reliable weigh ins through the week and that number hasn’t gone down. Then it is providing you with feedback that perhaps what you are doing isn’t working.

All any of these measurements are, is feedback. A way to review if the actions you are taking is getting the results you desire.

Using weight as well as the measures I have just mentioned, will give you the most rounded feedback you can get yourself on if you are making progress towards your fat loss goal.