Don't Let the Scale Determine Your Success: Understanding Weight Fluctuations
Lean With Plants
Chelsea Mae Cullen
4.9 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to tracking your progress on a weight loss journey, the number on the scales can be both encouraging and demoralizing. While it's natural to want to see the number go down as you make progress, it's important to remember that there are many factors that can influence the number on the scale in the short term.
In this episode I'll discuss why it's always important to focus on fat loss rather than just the number on the scales as there are many reasons why your weight can fluctuate such as the amount of food in your system, glycogen, water weight, and muscle weight can all influence the number in the short term.
By paying attention to these factors and reprogramming your mind to see the scales as a tool for interpret data rather a measure of your own self worth and success, you can then start tracking progress your in a holistic way and get a more accurate picture of your progress on your weight loss journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Lean of Plants podcast. My name is Chelsea and if you are struggling to lose weight on a plant-based diet, then this podcast is for you. While there are thousands of books, podcasts and resources about the benefits of a plant-based diet, the reality is that being vegan does not |
| 0:22.0 | guarantee losing weight. If you are feeling frustrated and confused about where to start, |
| 0:28.7 | or you know exactly what you should be doing, but you just can't seem to rustle up enough |
| 0:34.1 | willpower to do it, then keep listening. In this podcast, you'll learn the truth about plant-based weight loss, but just as importantly, |
| 0:42.1 | how to use proven methods of behavioural change to turn what you know into lifelong habits that |
| 0:48.3 | lead to getting and staying lean. |
| 0:51.3 | Can't wait to get started. |
| 0:53.1 | Let's do this. |
| 1:28.5 | Music lean. Can't wait to get started. Let's do this. Hello and welcome to the Leaner Plants podcast. We're going to be talking about the weight on the scale, understanding weight fluctuations and how you can use the scale to be something that helps you in your journey, as opposed to something that when you hop on it and you see some kind of scary number, it completely derails you, |
| 1:32.6 | which I know happens to a lot of people and used to happen to me as well. |
| 1:37.3 | We're also going to talk about some other measures and some other things that you can focus on that are going to help you track your progress and are useful measures on a day-to-day basis rather than just using a scale. |
| 1:46.7 | So I think that it's really important to talk about this, and I think I've talked about |
| 1:51.7 | it before, but we've got to be able to track our progress in some way, and there's multiple |
| 1:57.3 | ways you can do it. |
| 1:58.1 | You don't just have to use the scale weight. |
| 2:01.3 | But if we're letting either the number on the scales define how our day goes and derail our |
| 2:09.8 | consistency, then the scale is something that we are letting be a hindrance to our progress. |
| 2:16.2 | Or if we're too scared to hop on it because we know that it's a hindrance to our progress, or if we're too scared to hop on it because we know |
| 2:19.1 | that it's a hindrance to our progress, then we're actually missing out on a really, |
| 2:22.5 | really powerful tool for understanding ourselves and our bodies better, and also knowing |
| 2:27.7 | whether we're making progress and having more accountability. |
| 2:30.7 | So whenever people talk to me about being scared of hopping on the scales and saying, |
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