JJ Virgin4x NYTimes Best Selling Author, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Fitness Hall of Famer

How to measure your weight!

15 Aug 2025 · 0 min

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In this segment, JJ Virgin argues that using body weight as the primary measure of health progress is misleading. She urges viewers to shift their focus to functional and body‑composition metrics—such as the number of push‑ups they can perform, improvements in grip strength, increases in total body water, and reductions in waist circumference—rather than obsessing over minor daily weight fluctuations.

how mission important this is that we stop looking at weight as a measurement of success and we solely focus— and she said it's so exciting to look at these metrics. Look at the metrics of am I able to do more push-ups, is my grip strength improving, you know, is my total body water going up, is my waist shrinking. Look at the things that matter, not the silly things like did my weight go down half a pound yesterday.