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Margo

The scale can be your friend versus being your prison or enemy, as I have said to many of you. 

I’m reprinting/updating this particular blog since weighing has come up SO much lately. Must be that time of year! Many of you feel compelled to weigh every day even though you know intellectually (forget emotionally) that this is NOT  a good idea. 

Of more concern to me is not what time of the day to weigh yourself, but how often you weigh yourself.

The fact many of you weigh everyday which gives me heart palpitations! You could fast on any given day and weigh MORE the next morning. Conversely, if you ’splurged’ and had beer and pizza one evening, you may get on then next morning and weigh less then you thought. It’s unhealthly and just silly to use the scale as a daily litmus test of true body composition. MY recommendation: Weigh yourself ONCE a week. The same day of the week, the same time, preferably first thing in the morning, buck nekked. Keep track if you will, then one week later (not before), repeat. You will see TRENDS and FLUCTUATIONS. You may have worked really hard, eaten just right to ensure weight loss, and still the scale, THE SCALE merely reads what the existing conditions of your body are at that moment in time. Water weight, hormones, the big meal from the day before or not, constipation, or not, or any of the many possibilities(too many to list) can be reasons for fluctuations.  I can’t say this enough. It’s not perfection..it’s PROGRESS. 

Fluctuations occur under the most perfect eating and exercise habits.  If looking to lose weight,  over time you will see a downward trend, with natrual highs and lows along the way, on the scale. DO NOT let these highs and lows translate to highs and lows in your emotions giving the scale too much power. Again, scale fluctuations occur for many reasons under the most perfect eating and exercise habits.  

Okay, I’m off  my soapbox on this one! 

Warm regards,

Margo

As most of you know, one fitness tool I like very much is the Polar brand heart rate watch and chest strap. I prefer this particular model for the watch face number size, its accuracy, and pure ease of use. Simple. No whistles and bells. It reads your pulse/heart rate perpetually, and gives you  your average heart rate when done.  I don’t care for the kind for wrist only (without the chest strap), as they require stillness while you hold a button down; you  don’t have to monkey with the model I prefer at all. It’s automatic; turn it on, and go. Most of you know (if you don’t know, please ask me) what your optimal fat burning, calorie burning, fitness improving cardio heart rate level should be while exercising. 

This tool makes exercise (to me) more fun, more motivating, as you can see exactly where you are while walking, jogging, taking a class, and even at rest, to check out what your heart rate and pulse is. It can make that fat burning workout you do more challenging, since you’ll look at the watch and want to keep it to a certain number for a certain length of time.  If your heart is too high, you can see to bring it down; too low, you can see to amp it up. I’m fine with perceived heart rate, i.e. working at what you think is a 7 or 8 out of 10, but with this toy you can see exactly, if that kind of thing interests you. I recommend Polar brand, model A1 (you can find this older model by googling it) or the newer counterpart, Polar FS1. I have both..I just by the one with free shipping or on sale!!! 

Tick tick tick..Get that Heart moving, and break that sweat!!!

Warm regards,

Margo