Whether you’re trying to lose weight, keep it off, or prevent it from arriving in the first place, it’s only natural to want to check on your progress and to know if your new lifestyle routine is working- and by how much. But just how often should you weigh yourself?
From my experience as a personal trainer and weight loss coach, I think a realistic rate of weight loss is approximately ½ a kilogram a week. But you are going to need pretty accurate scales to pick that up. In addition, total body weight is not always an accurate measure of fat loss (or fat gain). It is virtually useless as a measure of success if you only have a few kilograms to lose (because of variations in fluid levels).
But as much as I can try to convince people that other measures are more reliable, you are probably still going to hop on the scales to find out your weight. It’s almost like a food craving that’s just too hard to resist. So here are some guidelines on how often to weigh yourself, and what you can do to increase the accuracy of your measurements.
How often do you weigh yourself? What other measures of “fat loss” do you use to monitor success?
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