How often do you have to stand on the scale?

I promised you something. Last week I talked about a conversation that Freya and I had during lunch about the weighing behavior of our participants. I thought it was typical, I said, that many people write in their diary that they only weigh once a week. I found it even more strange that participants do this because a dietitian advises.


Well, I must say that I approach slimming in a rather simplistic way. I believe that in my my naivety, losing weight goes better as you eat more and move more and I believe that people who do a session successfully. To me this sounds, honestly, very logical. However, if you keep track of the slimming sites and slimming books, I do, then you regularly read about dying in complete contradiction with my views. Sometimes it seems as if the writers of the books and the creators of the websites do their best to keep the people: "Beware that you do not eat too little, you want to go into the low-energy mode and you arrive," "you should especially not train too hard, because otherwise you want you not to be driven. "

These are stupid advice and perhaps it is Dutch scam. You only have to look around a little bit to see that different opinions are wrong. Werplook is an free in the food diaries or the or very controversial anorexia patients on this website. They eat practically nothing and are so thin that they have to fear them for their lives. The anorexia patients are (not yet) living proof that the low-energy option does not exist and that it is indeed that we do not have enough food and food. "


 For example, I only wrote a piece about this site of this website about heartbeat. It was the best, I had heard, but had not done well. If you train at 50% to 70% of your maximum heart rate then the weight loss was the best, I had heard. Fortunately, there were a few reactions to my message from people who were suddenly with me. What I had written did not work, they wrote, you do fall off when you train harder and more intensively.

The people who die on my copy are of course right. The harder and more intensively you train, how are you doing better? That is why cyclists and marathon runners are also so incredibly thin; this is because they train a lot, long-term and intensively. I was trapped in the pitfall of the lying slimming industry and that is why I had written without saying that losing weight is best if you do not train so hard. If I had thought better, I would not have blindly followed this advice and would have written something else.


Another advice you hear is to stand on the scale at most once a week. This too is an unwise advice. If you have problems, you are a serious business, and it requires your full and maximum dedication. For an optimal result you have to be busy every moment of the day with the idea that you have to redeem. People who only lose weight on Monday morning and Thursday evening, and do not worry about it for the rest of the week, will fail in their attempt. To keep yourself, it is wise to let yourself go and to set yourself concrete goals in the short term.

I promised last week that I would look into the database of this website to see if I can substantiate my statement with numbers. Is it true that people are increasingly losing weight? For those studies I have made a selection of people who have been back on this website for two months and we also have one last week. In short, a selection of participants who had been active in the past two months. Within this set of active participants, I counted for each participant how often he or she has weighed in the intervening time. And watts, the participants get out once a week to detach 2,397 kilograms, while the participants die in the same period more than once a week on the scales are issued, 3.120 kilos are lost.



The Conclusion: people die often weigh themselves, fall more in the same period.





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