Do you check your weight daily, weekly or monthly?
It is good to check your weight once to have a reference point. However it is very unhealthy to keep monitoring ones weight on a regular basis. It not only impacts your physical health but also your mental and emotional health too.
We call it monitoring our weight but it is actually something that causes anxiety and even hampers our health and fitness journey. The weight chart is just an average chart and not a hard and fast table to adhere to. We are all different - our genetics, our bone structure, our body type, our activity levels, our diet, our profession etc and so we can not compare ourselves to a prefixed table.
Unless you are a professional athlete that competes within a certain weight category, you don't need to obsess about these numbers.
It is sad that with so much information available today, people are still falling prey to false practices, perimeters and beauty or health standards. Weight doesn't matter. What matters is the fat to muscle ratio in the body. This doesn't need some special equipment or some elaborate formula etc. It just needs a mirror to see what needs to change and lots of effort to bring that change.
Fat is not the enemy. We need fat for good health, immunity and numerous functions of the body. Infact our brain needs fat and cholesterol daily to function properly. So being skinny without any fat or a very low body fat ratio will surely affect one's health in the long run.
Stop obsessing that am so heavy, I am fat, I am out of shape etc. First step to change is to accept where you are, love your body irrespective of whether you are skinny or fat. Then stand in front of the mirror observe yourself for a few minutes. Decide what needs to change. Sit down with a qualified and trained professional to guide you on this journey of change. It always should be a holistic approach. Just not eating anything or eating normally as always but over exercising and other such wrong plans , may show temporary results but at the cost of permanently damaging your health. An experienced and knowledgeable trainer will first understand your normal routine then make a plan that covers your diet, sleep pattern, exercise routine, recovery time, stress factors etc all while keeping in mind any pre-existing health issues or conditions that you have. Once the plan is made, just stick to it. Be disciplined, don't stop even if you don't see results. Gradually the results will start showing.
Many of us have let our bodies go down a slippery slope for years sometimes even decades but as soon as we start exercising, eating right etc we want to see results in a few weeks or months. Be patient, be consistent. Make it your lifestyle. The results will surely come.
What matters is how you feel. For example, we could be very fit and healthy but body may feel heavy or sluggish at a certain weight. Such minor tweaks are what actually matter. To notice and realise them we first need to get out of the numbers trap and get on the muscle building journey.
So stop checking your weight daily or weekly or monthly. Checking your weight once a year is good enough just to use as a refrence point.
Train like a warrior to be a warrior!!!
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