At one point, I had got quite obsessed, weighing myself every day but as too much of anything is no good thing, have since eased that urge to constantly check, which was not easy. Weighing yourself in the morning, generally gets a lighter reading than say in the morning as your weight can fluctuate during the course of a day, so it's important to try and weigh yourself at the same time.
Unfortunately, there have been times when I have not been happy with the readings on the scales and this sadly, has then had a knock on effect on my day. It seems my body likes to hold onto calories, in one sense this is good for building muscle in the gym but not for loosing weight or shrinking waist lines...
Then I tried something different, I used the scales in the chemist that also measure your body fat, to my initial confusion I found that although my overall weight was not going down as quick as I'd hoped, my body fat weight was. In other words, I was building muscle which is by nature much more denser than fat. Since then I have tried to take this reading every 3 months. My results are below and although I've only lost 3.6 K.g over all, I have actually lost 4.8 kg of body fat; suggesting to me (and please correct me if I am wrong) that I am not loosing any muscle mass that is so often the risk with not eating enough and in fact am loosing body fat, and in some cases building more muscle which should then in turn burn more calories? Still feels like a long way from 100kg and below though....
I welcome any constructive comments.
Thanks for reading my blog and if like me you were getting disheartened about not loosing weight fast enough, check out your body fat. Cheers!
| Date | Time | Weight (KG) | Height | BMI | Body Fat | Body Fat |
| (m) | Mass (KG) | % | ||||
| 27-Apr-12 | 15:06 | 116.1 | 1.89 | 32.5 | 32.7 | 28.2% |
| 31-Jul-12 | 14:13 | 114.9 | 1.89 | 32.2 | 29.5 | 25.7% |
| 25-Oct-12 | 11:07 | 112.5 | 1.89 | 31.5 |
27.9 | 24.8% |
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