It's Time to Cut Ties with the Scale

It's time to purge that elephant in the room: THE SCALE!

Whether it's in the bathroom, the basement or in the bedroom, it's taunting you.

Every day it beckons for you to step onto it. It's the first thing you think of when you wake up and we always want to hop on the scale before bed.

This obsession is one of the reasons you should cut ties with the scale; set it free so you can set yourself free of its chokehold.

Daily weigh-ins are meaningless.
Most people trying to lose weight really want to see a chance in their body composition: FAT LOSS.

Body composition changes cannot be detected by a scale on a day-to-day basis. Fat loss can be detected on a weekly basis, however, so if you can have enough discipline to only hope on once a week, then you have my permission to keep your scale ☺

This is very tough however- so if you start to notice yourself weighing yourself more often, then hide it.

Did You Know that Your scale weight can fluctuate up to 5 pounds in one day!

This is due to:

Weight of food & beverages
Water loss from exercise
Water gain from menstrual cycles
Water retention from high sodium intake
Weight of non-voided bowel contents

The scale is NOT the real barometer of progress.

You may believe that "the scale does not lie," and that the number is objective. However, you can get more objective, more in-depth feedback from other measuring tools.

Here's an easy way to do it at home: Be mindful of how your clothes are fitting. After all, it is pretty common for the scale "not to budge" for a person who finds she can suddenly fit with ease into a pair of formerly tight jeans.

Other effective measuring tools can be:

How you feel after rushing up a flight of stairs
Not tiring out as quickly when you play with your children
Your new found ability to change the water cooler bottle at work without any effort!
Diminished cravings for sugar

The scale can't record these milestones. When you read the number on the scale, you will automatically associate that number with food. Yes, that's right. If you don't like the number, what thought pops into your mind? It almost always relates to food.

The scale is a harbinger of food obsession, which includes counting every calorie, and carb and fat gram. Before you know it, you'll be carrying a calorie counter with you everywhere you go.

Focus on how you feel, milestones in your daily activities, improved muscle tone, better eating habits, and how your clothes fit, rather than an ambiguous number on a gadget.

For help in escaping the scale's stranglehold and learning how to make REALLY changes in your body, give us a call today so we can help you with one of our customized programs!

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Committed to YOUR Success,

Dave Knapp NCSF-CPT-CNS

www.PrincetonBootCamps.com

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WHY DO WE CALL IT WEIGHT LOSS

     The definition of loss is missing something that is cherished. How does that pertain to weight loss? If we lose something we feel sad and it takes a while to get over that feeling. Everyone I know who wants to get in shape looks for the next great diet. Let’s look at this word for a moment. If you drop the T in Diet what do you have? Die, isn’t this what most people want to do when they are trying to get rid of those extra pounds. Why is something good we are trying to do have such a bad connotation?

  This brings me back to my point about weight loss. When you lose something you look long and hard to try and find it again. This means after struggling to lose say 50lbs over 6 months you wake up one day and say oh my god where did those 50lbs go. I must find them because a loss is not good. Where could it have gone? I know that 50lbs is in the pasta, cookies, white flour, cupcakes and candy and my old sedentary lifestyle. I want it all back to make me feel whole again.   


This is why I think we should call the process of weight reduction Weight Release, doesn’t this make sense? When we get rid of extra pounds we release that in the form of energy into the universe. We don’t want it back. We will not wake up in a month or two and say where did my flab go? We released it never to return. This can be accomplished with a flexible eating plan and workout to help tone and shape your body.


Now that I have peaked your interest let me tell you about our program. You can release on average 5lbs a week guaranteed by following my own weight release eating plan and participating in a workout program that will set your metabolism on fire.


 Join us for our next session a Princeton BootCamps. Got to www.PrincetonBootCamps.com and get these results that have help hundreds of client get the bodies they thought were out of reach


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Dave Knapp NCSF-MCPT,CNS