WEIGHING In This Holiday Season

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WEIGHING yourself regularly is ALWAYS a GREAT IDEA, and especially so during the HOLIDAY season.  Weighing yourself frequently helps you to get in tune with your body.  The scale lets you know how your eating habits and workout habits effect your weight. 

It has been shown that people who weight themselves regularly are more likely to NOT GAIN WEIGHT and even more likely to LOSE WEIGHT if desired.

Many sources recommend different frequencies of weighing yourself- every day, once a week, once a month???

Personally I have found that people's HABITS change DRAMATICALLY from the WEEK (Monday-Thursday) to the WEEKEND (Friday-Sunday). For this reason I always recommend weighing yourself TWICE A WEEK, every MONDAY MORNING (to know how you did over the weekend) and every FRIDAY MORNING (to know how you did over the week).

If morning doesn't work for you that's okay, it can be any time of day as long as it's CONSISTENT. Since our weight naturally fluctuates throughout the day I recommend ALWAYS weighing yourself at approximately the same time of day.

DO NOT OBSESS OVER THE SCALE, it is simply meant to give you feedback each week on how you are doing with your health habits. Your body will naturally fluctuate weight within a small range over the course of a month... but if you notice that number growing every single time you step on the scale maybe it's time to address what has changed with your eating, drinking, working out, sleeping, and stress in you life.