Waist A Day Weight Loss
The title is spelled correctly, it is a play on words and the proven value of resting between workouts. Rather than measure your weight loss and waist shrinkage every day or even every week, consider taking a break between those all too often less than hoped for result checks!
Trying Too Hard To Lose Weight
We have all heard the term ‘yo-yo’ dieting and of course, we don’t do that, do we. We even know what ‘fad diet’ means and we don’t do them either. Or do we? By diet we should mean our regular eating habits but it usually means a period of personal pain and torture, and that is just denying ourselves the nicer things in life to eat. Added to this is the physical torture we put our bodies through with all the extra exercise, sometimes more than just once a day. The reality is, it is too much. Too often we try too hard and when we don’t get the results we seek before we can’t take it any more, we give up. Until the next time we feel like torturing ourselves. Checking the scales and the tape measure every other day is no better.
Three Waists To Every Weigh
The reality is that your weight will go up and down over the course of the day and from one day to the next. If you punish yourself for a few days, even a couple of weeks, you may notice some improvement but it will revert back to what it was as soon as that level of intense activity gets back to more realistic, sustainable levels. What will make it worse is hopping on the scale every day, even every other day. The same goes for slipping that tape measure around your big bits. While different plans will suggest different ratios, I believe you should go three waists to every weight. Check your waist measurement once a week for three weeks, then the following week, measure your weight.
Long Term Burn
You didn’t get this way overnight and you won’t get back to where you were twenty years ago in a week or even a month or two. This is a long term commitment and you need to burn off the excess over time. Slow cook it away so it won’t come back in a hurry. Take your waist, thigh, arm and neck measurements today and weigh yourself too. Then put the tape measure away for a week, that’s seven whole days. Then measure yourself and note the numbers. Do that once a week for three weeks and on the fourth week, weigh yourself instead. If you have been doing the right thing in the days inbetween you should see results and be motivated to keep going. If you can’t keep it up for a month, then halve the periods. The longer you go between measuring, the more ‘WOW! Factor’ the results will have. You know what you need to do between measurements; eat less, move more. And don’t expect it all to happen overnight.
