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Episode 587 : Nicole Recine, diabetes educator and near-nurse practitioner, joins Vinnie Tortorich to discuss measuring fat loss and not becoming a slave to the scale, and being confident in that you look and feel better on this Wednesday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer Podcast
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MEASURING FAT LOSS: NOT OPTIMAL ON THE SCALE
- What exactly are we measuring when we step on the scale?
- When people want to lose weight, they want to lose fat
- Scale DOES NOT differentiate between water, muscle, and fat
- What really matters is the inches you lose and how you feel!
- Don’t be a slave to your scale
- Maybe just check once a month, but as long as you FEEL good, that is the most important thing
PLATEAUING AND WEIGHING ONESELF
- When people lose a lot of weight, they freak out because the lbs aren’t coming off as quickly and they worry they plateau
- Once you get down to a certain weight / don’t have that much to lose, get rid of the scale
- Hypothetical situation
- 200 lbs woman, 35% body fat
- morbid obesity
- Go down to 140 lbs, healthy now (20% body fat)
- Now only 1o to be really ‘lean’
- Now, there is a stall where their goal weight is 120 lbs
- They exercise, cut the fat, count the calories
- Person gets down to 120lbs doing the above
- At this point, they weren’t losing fat, they were losing muscle mass
- Now HIGHER percent body fat even though their lbs are lower
- 200 lbs woman, 35% body fat