GAGE WEIGH LOSS Posted October 11, 2013

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                                              THE BEST  WAYS TO GAGE WEIGHT LOSS

Physicians, Physical Education Teachers, Health Educators and Nutrition Professionals say the best way to measure weight loss, while on a diet, is to weigh yourself daily.  Two other ways to gage your weight are 1.)  Look at your refection in the mirror; and  2.) Be aware of how your clothes fit. 

Dan Buettner wrote "BLUE ZONE - Lessons for Living Longer From People Who've Lived The Longest."  In this New York Times Best Seller Book, Buettner sites a two-year study of more than three thousand women trying to looses weight and keep it off.  The study found that after two years, the women who weighed themselves daily lost an average of twelve pounds.  The women who never weighed themselves gained five pounds... a seventeen pound swing. 

Your weight will vary on a daily basis but you can track your weight loss trend over a period of time.  Do not get discouraged if you gain a pound or two one day, stay the course.  Your weight will go down! If you find, after a couple of months, that you are not loosing weight, you may need to cut down your meal portions, and/or increase your exercise minutes. The scale will let you know how things are working.

If you find that you need to loosen your belt or undo the top button of your waist band... take those as warning signals,  If your clothes feel uncomfortable and you need to buy a larger size...those are warning signals. If you start thinking that certain clothes make you look fat...that's a warning signal.  If you start making excuses about the way manufactures are cutting clothes more skimpy or that this shirt must have shrunk in the wash...those are warning signals.  Do not ignore the red flags!

If you adopt a regular exercise routine and healthy eating habits as your life style, you will see the benefits when you get on the scale and when you look  in the mirror.  Your health and attitude will improve.  You will feel better about yourself.  It is a long-term process and a life-time commitment! 

My next posting will be October 17, 2013.