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I'm about ready to pitch my scale out the window, too. I'll step on it and I'm 3 pounds lighter (yay!), then I'll step right back on it and I've gained those 3 pounds back - all within the span of a minute.
After getting grim results back from test results, I have made a lifestyle change:
In 10 days I have lost five pounds. I walk 2 miles a day: 90 percent of what I eat is organic
6 a.m. 16 oz water with 1/2 squeezed lemon
7 a.m 1 cup of oatmeal with a few raisins/ 1/2 banana or blueberry
10 am. 10 raw almonds
12 noon 2 or 3 oz of chicken/turkey or fish, steamed veggie and 2 cups of organic salad.
2 p.m. 1/2 apple
5 p.m. repeat of lunch
7 p.m snack of fruit or 10 almonds
I drink 100 ounces of water. I am never hungry and I am satisfied. 46 pounds to lose.
The purpose of eating every 2 or 3 hours is think of your metabolism as a furnace or fire and when the flame gets low you turn it up by adding food.
This diet is around 1500 calories. You are never hungry and in fact your have to force yourself to eat. I lose 3 to 4 pounds a week on it.
A trainer explained it to me a number of years ago. This is the jist of what I remember -
As you work out, your cardiovascular system improves and your circulatory network branches out to provide fuel to all those newly developed muscles....so you are also gaining water/blood volume weight. Your body compostion is changing - you're losing fat, gaining muscle and (sadly) muscle weighs more than fat.
You could try getting one of those scales that measures your BMI. I've never used one so I don't know how they work. But it would be a way to see progress on the scale even if your weight hasn't changed much.
I've never had a scale that measures BMI either, but I have heard in passing that they're not really too accurate. I don't really put too much value in the BMI charts, as far as I understand it, the BMI charts have already been modified 2-3x and the last modification on it was. . around 1979'ish, if my memory serves correct?
I think the BMI charts and calculators are OK as a general guideline/reference, but I have a hard time taking them too seriously or literally just because I know people who are fit as a fiddle and they're still classified according to the charts/calculators slightly over normal as overweight. I just don't feel that there's enough leniency in them. I feel it's time for another update on them.
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