KNP177 - The Scale is Just Data - Why it Fluctuates and How to Have a Healthy Relationship with it
The Next Level Health & Fitness Podcast (Formerly The Key Nutrition Podcast)
Brad Jensen
4.9 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Michelle and I discuss why the scale will fluctuate. We gave you 10 reasons why you might see fluctuations in the scale as well as how to improve your relationship with the scale. The answer is not to abandon weighing yourself altogether. Reasons for the scale fluctuations might include the following listed below. We went into detail on each one of these areas and tried to give you some education behind each point. As we always say, education drives compliance.
1. You drank a ton of water
2. You strength trained yesterday
3. You at more sodium than normal
4. You ate more carbs that normal
5. You haven't gone to the bathroom in a while
6. You're about to start your period
7. It's the weekend
8. Your weight was down yesterday
9. You're stressed out
10 Lack of sleep!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Key Nutrition Podcast, your one-stop shop for everything, food, fitness, and |
| 0:03.6 | mindset. |
| 0:04.1 | On today's episode, me and Michelle talked about my trip to Southern California, and there's |
| 0:08.9 | some graphic details about me not quite making it all the way to the bathroom after eating |
| 0:13.9 | buttercake of Astros. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm partly embarrassed and partly impressed that I actually made it almost to the bathroom, |
| 0:20.3 | the actual toilet. |
| 0:21.6 | So that was cool. |
| 0:24.3 | Talked about where does not stay if you go to a laguna. |
| 0:27.2 | And I hate to give them a bad rap, but I will explain. |
| 0:30.8 | And the base of the episode was spent on that scale. |
| 0:35.1 | Scale fluctuations, why the scale fluctuates, how to view the scale as what I always talk about and Michelle talks about, which is just as data. It's not as easy. It's just saying it's just data view it just as that. You have to understand the mechanism of the scale in your body and what might be causing these ups and downs. So we gave 10 reasons why the scale might fluctuate on you. |
| 0:56.0 | And they're very important to note and why I also believe in frequent weighing. |
| 1:02.4 | Some coaches do not. So we went into detail about why I encourage that for some clients, |
| 1:08.1 | not everyone. |
| 1:13.3 | I think you're going to get a lot of value out of this podcast. |
| 1:17.2 | We have to, the scale is not the enemy. |
| 1:22.2 | So putting our worth and all of our progress into what that scale says is not healthy. And also never weighing because you hate the scale is not healthy either, in my opinion, |
| 1:26.4 | in our opinion. |
| 1:29.0 | So we want to try to find a middle ground for you and explain the science behind it so um you guys enjoy this episode um excited if you're |
| 1:37.7 | going to get into it and uh we will chat with you next week i'll let you get in the show bye bye |
| 1:41.8 | this is brad jensen and you listen to the Key Nutrition Podcast. |
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