Weight Loss Motivation (don't worry what you are at the weekend won't sabotage your weight loss results).

Here is a common trait that I am noticing more and more...

Have you ever let's say "really enjoyed " a weekend...

Where you think after that you have totally sabotaged your good lifestyle habits to date...

If your good work only lasted the two days before that, then actually it's possible :) ...

However lets say, you have been forging some good lifestyle habits for a little while...

But the day before the weekend you weighed yourself and today (after) - it's increased by at least a couple of kg's or Lbs depending what you use...

My question is always "what has increased?"

We always seem to associate any weight gain to body fat...

But the scales measure all the components of the body, not just body fat...

In fact the biggest component of the human body is water...

So any short term changes (up or down) mean our water content will be the biggest component...

Plus if the quantity of what you ate in that time increased, as food increases hydration it can be mostly attributed to this...

That's why weight in general tends to fluctuate...

Bear in mind to increase by 1lb of body fat (.454 kg) we would need to consume 3,500 calories more than we need per day...

Not saying it's not possible :)

But this is why I drone on (I'm pretty sure that's the right phrase :))
about habits...

Because if everyday you were to adopt bad habits, eventually over the course of days you could likely and accumulatively go other the needed energy by 3,500 calories or the same energy as 1lb of body fat...

I heard someone say it best in one of my group sessions; "It creeps on"...

Adopting any habit on a given day, could turn out to be a long term habit, that could have an effect either way...

So whilst you can't undo progress in a very short time,

It is your lifestyle habits that you follow the most regularly that pretty much govern how you look and feel today.

Leave a question in the comments and I will make it a question in a future blog...

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Thanks! Ed.