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Size does matter!

June 11, 2008

I was talking with my wife this morning about how great she is doing with her weight loss. Her weight had been static for a few weeks but she just dropped another couple of pounds. She was telling me how she felt that she hadn’t lost much weight. It got me thinking about the way 90 percent of people gauge how well they are doing weight-wise — the scale!

The truth is if you are exchanging fat for muscle, you won’t see a change in your weight. In fact, it may even go up — and yet you are still getting healthier. So why do we keep track of just our weight, something I am guilty of myself?

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