JJ Virgin explains why the scale can lie: losing weight often means losing muscle, which tanks your metabolism. Use a bio-impedance scale to track body water alongside weight, and measure your waist weekly. A shrinking waist with falling weight means you're losing fat, not muscle.
If you're chasing that lower number on the scale, you may be damaging your metabolism. Here's why. It's not what you weigh, it's what your weight is made up of. And the reality is, if you're trying to lose as much weight as possible, you're probably losing muscle too. And muscle is your metabolic Spanx. It's the most precious thing you have on your body. You wanna hold onto it tight and build it at all costs because more muscle means a better metabolism, easier fat burning, plus you'll look better naked. All right, so if you're not weighing in, if you're not using a scale, what are you doing? Well, I do use the scale every day. I just don't use a traditional scale. I use a bioimpedance scale. What I'm looking for on that is my total body water and my weight. And at the end of the week, I have a little trend line, and I want to make sure that my body water is going up while my weight's going down if I'm trying to lose fat and hold on to muscle or build muscle. The other thing that you want to do is use a waist and hip measurement. Do that once a week, and you want to make sure that if you are losing weight, you're losing your waist too, because if you're not losing your waist, that means you're probably losing muscle. If you have any questions, just leave them down below.
