Lose weight harmoniously. A good back-to-school goal… First step: weigh yourself, write it down and don’t go back to your scale for four weeks!
Massive weight gain is dangerous. A doctor will not necessarily talk to you about “disease”; it is a bad habit of modern medicine to put this health problem aside. It is the intelligent addition of ingredients and foods, often very simple, that makes the genius of gastronomy. Let’s act with the same logic to lose the excess weight that the immoderate practice of this cult has inflicted on us!
One day is THE day…
Because you are tired of walking around with a 10 kilo backpack, or even much more, on your shoulders and especially on your stomach. Because your partner threatens to separate because of your snoring. Because you are asleep at the end of the midday meal; because the least effort exhausts you; because you’re tired of being stuffed into your clothes. It is possible to lose 15% of your starting weight, without suffering, without fearing the yoyo effect or deficiencies.
“THE” day will be today…
Weigh yourself; tomorrow morning, on an empty stomach. Write down the result carefully in a notebook or on your smartphone.
Then abandon your scale, for four weeks, so that the first results are significant. Weight loss is sometimes capricious, especially in the beginning. After one month, the result is guaranteed! You will begin to be overwhelmed with an incredible wave of well-being.
The Scale Ceremony
The Ceremonial of the Balance. This popular name is well chosen: the information that it “swings” is rarely nice! We must, for once, prefer the medical term “weighing scales”. But whatever the name, how to choose this justice of the peace of our caloric anxieties?
To buy the object of worship, just go to any supermarket to see that you are not the only one to have had this idea and that there is a wide variety of products, at practically all prices. It’s not sophistication that will make you lose weight, but you can have fun: candidates for weight loss like values to the nearest hundred grams, which the old needle scale does not give, that you don’t find more. The first prices start around thirty euros.
Worship can then begin…
The advice varies on the rhythm of the weighings. Most dieticians recommend once a week, at a fixed time. We can also leave the choice free, specifying however that, often, an occasional weight loss is only a simple variation of the water in our body. So, neither untimely joy nor discouragement. After a while, if you lose weight, inevitably, it will translate into numbers. However, if the sport undoubtedly makes you lose weight, the muscle being heavier than the fat, with the effort, you can lose less weight, but you lose weight better.
It is useless to multiply the weighings. The parade: a model that saves and sends the result to the smartphone; a curve is then formed which is unstoppable. So in order not to ruin your morale with daily variations that are sometimes surprising, you have to weigh yourself only once every ten days. Better, every month thereafter…
The weight does not reflect the real balance, because it does not make it possible to differentiate fat from muscle mass; there are now scales that, in addition to the weight, give the body fat rate. As soon as the feet are placed on the device, an electric current runs through the body. Grease offers greater resistance to this current than other components. This difference allows the calculation of the fat rate, as a percentage of the weight. Apart from pacemaker carriers, everyone can use these scales without any problem, because the current is very low. Less than 100 euros on average, to improve your diet, the choice is yours.
Last precision, the rate of weight loss must be gradual. A few hundred milligrams per week. Above, it is rather the “yo-yo” policy that will prevail. The body, which abhors starvation, will store as soon as it is given the opportunity. Losing 5 kilos in one month at the start of the school year is the guarantee of finding 6 kilos more after Christmas Eve…
So, no untimely joy and above all, no discouragement. After a while, if you lose weight, inevitably, it will translate into numbers.
