Weight Numbers Becoming Irrelevant
The number one priority for individuals starting diet programs is to focus on lowering numbers on the bathroom scale week by week.
Weight management has become such a problem in recent years (especially in Western culture) because of abundant supplies of food available to us each and every day.
Technology has made food more readily available and agriculture methods are producing larger crops in comparison to a hundred years ago.
With the abundance of food comes a growing concern for our expanding waistlines and risk of developing metabolic syndrome from excess visceral fat.
For this reason, the weight scale should not be the only data used to indicating success on a dieting program.
Weight loss does not imply that overall optimal health or individual goals have been achieved for the duration of the diet regiment.
Utilizing more comprehensive technology for physical fitness has been progressing in the last few years, which may make weighing yourself on the scale more irrelevant in the future.
Why Weighing Yourself Is a Waste of Time
The weight measurement displayed on your bathroom scale can give you a basic idea of what you weigh, but it’s much too simplistic of reading for a good transformation.
Your body mass is divided into either lean muscle mass or fatty adipose tissue, both which differ in density and volume:
Whenever you make a goal of losing a particular amount of weight, you lose exactly that amount but you have no idea whether it was fat or muscle.
The main goal is to retain muscle and lose fat, as muscle burns 4x more calories than fat and gives the appearance of a more chiseled, sculpted look.
With this in mind, many fitness gyms and studios have been designing new fitness hardware to collect body measurements using 3-D body scanning technology.
3-D measurements give you a more accurate method to track your progress in the gym without fumbling with tape measurements and inaccurate calipers as in the past.
Simply hop on a scale or pod booth and a 3-D image of your body will display measurements showing specific areas of fatty tissue deposits that may be difficult to remove in your 12-week fat loss plan.
The Wrap Up
Because weight scales are too inaccurate to give us complete information about our body fat levels, they’re becoming more irrelevant. The breakthroughs in medicine will be heading toward discovering the importance of healthy ratios of lean body mass to adipose fat tissue as more research is done with time. Ratios have more significance than we thought.
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