How To Properly Judge
Your Fat Loss
Progress
By Rob Poulos, Fat Loss &
Fitness Expert & Creator of 'Fat
Burning Furnace'
If you
don’t know how to properly judge your fat
loss or fat burning progress from a
particular exercise or nutrition regimen,
you’re probably not going to be very
successful. It’s just like in
sports…you have to know the score if you
want to know who wins the game. So in
our fat loss and fitness efforts, we have to
know our body’s score if we want to know if
we’re winning, or in this case,
losing.
I’ve
found that a big mistake a lot of people
make in judging their fat loss progress in
the pursuit of a fit body is to be a slave
to the scale. The scale is a useful
tool, no doubt, but I’ve seen far too many
people stop doing the right things (like
proper weight training) just because they
gained a pound on the
scale.
But
you can’t blame yourself if you’ve been in
this mode before…for years most of us were
taught to watch the scale carefully when
measuring if we did or did not burn
fat. But your body can fluctuate a few
pounds up or down at different times of the
day, every day. This doesn’t mean
you’ve burned or gained fat, so following
the scale can play games with your
mind.
Another
big problem with using the scale as your
sole judge of progress has become clear with
many people adding lean muscle to their
bodies recently.
Muscle
weighs more than fat, so let’s say you been
following a properly conducted resistance
training routine for the past few months.
You’ve gotten stronger and you’ve also added
muscle to your body. If you’re adding
pounds of lean muscle to your body, you
might see an up-tick in what the scale
says. But assuming you’re not gaining
fat weight, it’s a good thing. It’s
not about weight loss, it’s about fat
loss.
More
muscle means more calories devoted to
building that muscle and keeping it
alive. It also means your metabolism
will get faster and become more efficient at
burning fat. You’ll see that number on
the scale drop soon enough, as the new
muscle has created a calorie deficit in your
daily food intake.
What
we really should be looking at here is body
fat percentage, or how much your total
weight is made up of body fat. Most
men will be more than happy with their
bodies when they get into the 12-15% range,
and most women will be satisfied with a fat
percentage of around 16-20. So go out
and get a skin caliper, which is fairly
inexpensive, or another measurement device
so you can keep track of your relative body
fat percentage. If it’s going down, keep
doing what you’re doing, and don’t even look
at that scale!
Another
tool I recommend using when judging your fat
loss progress is the tried and true mirror
in your bathroom. Now, this may sound
simple, but use the mirror to judge your fat
loss and muscle gain.
Combined
with liberal use of your scale and keeping
tabs on your body fat percentage, your
mirror will provide all you’ll need to judge
your progress. The great thing about
the mirror is that you’ll get great
motivation from seeing your body change
right before your eyes, and it will spur you
on to even further
progress!
The
other important aspect of judging your fat
loss progress is creating realistic
expectations of your new body. As I
teach my Fat Burning Furnace students, our
friends in the fitness industry often use
the genetically superior to advertise their
products and programs, and this can easily
deceive you subconsciously into thinking all
you have to do is follow their advice to
look like the cover boy or
girl.
Well,
I’m here to tell you that even if you have
the most efficient plan or program, you
still may never look like your favorite
physique superstar or
model.
Research
tells us that we are a product of our
genetic inheritance. We all have our
own inherited physical
characteristics. For instance, some of
us carry more fat in our bellies than
others. Some of us have more muscle
fibers in our legs and arms. Some of
us carry more fat cells in our hips and
thighs. Some of us are short, some are
tall, some have dark hair, some have blue
eyes, etc.
Some
of us lose fat and gain muscle easily, some
don’t. While this may come as no
surprise, it is important to remember so we
don’t sabotage our efforts in the gym or at
the dinner table trying to burn fat.
What I mean by that is, just because you
don’t lose fat in your belly at the same
rate as your best friend doesn’t mean you’re
doing the wrong things to lose
it.
You
can only compare yourself to you.
Lying in you right now is your very own best
body - your own strong, lean, and healthy
physique. Everyone’s is
different. Yours might be highlighted
by broad shoulders and powerful arms.
Or maybe it’s your slender and muscular
waist that frames your
body.
So
don’t feel chained by your genetic makeup,
feel liberated, knowing that you have the
power to reshape and transform what you were
given.
With
the combination of the right knowledge and
developed habits, you can burn fat fast and
make such improvements in your body that
you’ll impress almost everyone you know.
I’ve seen it happen with my friends, family,
and students…I’m talking about people seeing
them and saying wow!
And
more importantly, you’ll feel great knowing
you’ve done all you can to live the rest of
your life with the body you’re truly capable
of...and that is just an awesome and
empowering feeling.
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Rob Poulos is a celebrated fitness author,
fat loss expert, and the founder and CEO of
Zero to Hero Fitness. Rob created the
world's most efficient method for fast and
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