Essential for monitoring your figure or seeing your progress in the event of weight loss, weighing must be governed by a whole bunch of important rules to be truly useful. Discover the worst mistakes to make when weighing yourself, according to a sports coach.
Some fear it, others can no longer do without it… The scale is a device that crystallizes all our expectations and fears when it comes to weight loss. But if the act of weigh may seem trivial, it should nevertheless be done according to the rules of the art, as Amine Benm, a sports coach who gives his fitness and slimming advice on his Instagram account.
To help you keep track of your weight, the expert has listed the worst mistakes often made when weighing yourself on a scale. And bad news, there are quite a few of them and they can completely distort the number that is written on your scale. This is why it is necessary to learn the good reflexes to have to weigh yourself in the right conditions. First of all, the coach reminds us that it is not necessary to weigh yourself every day because with this habit, weight can quickly turn into an obsession while variations in weight from one day to the next are completely normal. The weight “can vary depending on a lot of factors” such as sleep, hydration, stress…” specifies the coach. Finally, he also wishes to emphasize that we must distance ourselves from the result obtained because “gaining weight does not mean gaining fat and the opposite is also true”.
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Weigh yourself: all the mistakes not to make according to a coach
- Weigh yourself with clothes
The weight of the clothes you are dressed in can influence the number you consider to be our weight, especially if you weigh yourself when wearing a sweater or jeans, fashion pieces that weigh their weight. That’s the basics, but the best thing is to weigh yourself when you are undressed to get the most realistic weight possible.
- Weigh yourself after overeating
Do you tend to want to know the effects of your heavy meals on your figure the next morning? Serious error, this is clearly not a good reflex according to the sports coach who reminds us that “it’s normal to have fluctuations” of weight during the week and that this does not necessarily mean that you have gained this extra kilo in the long term.
- Weigh yourself anytime during the day
If you are in the habit of weighing yourself at any time of the day to monitor your weight loss, know that this is not the technique to adopt because you eat and drink over the hours and this impacts the weight written on the scale. As the sports coach points out, it is important to weigh yourself in the morning and on an empty stomach so that your weighing is significant.
- Do not go to the toilet before doing so
Just like food, not having a bowel movement can also make you think you weigh more than you actually do. It is therefore important to adopt this little ritual before your weighing so that the right number appears on your scale.
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