Here’s When You Should Step on The Scale

One thing we know, we all are different hen it comes to maintaining the healthiest body that we can possibly have. This means that for those of us that want to maintain a healthy weight, or change weight to have an ideal body composition and ideal BMI range, what works is a very individual set of strategies.

Daily and weekly weigh ins, particularly if incorporated into a weight loss program can help a dieter lose weight.

Alternative plans are to weigh in weekly or monthly.

YOur weight will actually fluctuate per hour, so you really should pick a consistent time of day to weight to be the most accurate.

There are other ways to monitor successful body shaping and health through a weight loss regimen, other than just checking weight, it’s not always the amount of weight on the scales, as everyone knows. And it’s not just whether you fit into your jeans. It’s exactly weather you have a healthy lean body mass.

There is some controversy as to when and how much you should do weigh ins.

Daily weights are a much better strategy to track loss than just stepping on the scale at the doctor’s office. At the doctor’s office, but that’s just one weight, and one set of numbers. So When you go to the doctor’s office are they measuring the right things? How about waist to hip ratios? That will at least tell you whether you are a pear or an apple. But how about the old fashioned calipers to grab your flabby parts. All these numbers mean something a bit different, and for long term health, you want to evaluate all of them. And there are measurements of body fat %.

We m The American Bariatric Society endorses some criteria for obesity, that we are used to. However, the scale does not always determine fitness physique, a physician Dr. Eric Braverman, who is associated with Weill Cornell neurological surgery department, but also seems to support some non-substantiated alternative therapies on his website, has reported that a study by his PATH Research of New York’s recent study showed that at least 5% of individuals are deemed obese by BMI but are not, so when we are discussing a healthy body, it’s not just about the scale. But daily weigh ins are accessable and useful none the less. Th

Also combine weigh ins with some sort of consistent hip measurements. If you insist on being cost effective, get out a measuring tape and check the weight to hip ratio! Women, you should be no more than 0.8! Quit reading, and go do some core work for at least 10 minutes!