Tracking Body Weight as a Tool

If you rely on the scale as the only measurement of progress, then it may be time to ditch the scale.

However, you might be tracking your daily body weight if you are:

• An athlete tracking weight for a competition.

• You like the progress from daily feedback.

• Your nutrition coach is tracking your daily body weight as a tool.

Outside of body composition, there are so many other ways that nutrition can improve your quality of life. When you approach nutrition from trying to create health from the inside out, everything changes.

It’s important to remember that there are lots of reasons why the scale fluctuates and there are so many ways to measure progress.

Possible reasons for weight fluctuation:

• water and salt intake

• meal timing

• frequency of bowel movements

• amount of carbs consumed

• changes in stress or sleep schedule

• menstrual cycle and hormones

• time weight is taken

• a hard workout session or poor recovery

What your body weight doesn’t tell you:

• how your clothes fit

• progress in the gym

• sleep quality

• improved energy and focus

• better understanding of hunger cues

• the quality of food you’re eating

• improved relationship with food

• more confidence

• fewer cravings

• improved labs and markers of health

• less bloating and inflammation