JJ Virgin says skip daily weigh-ins and use a Bluetooth scale weekly instead, tracking body water and muscle mass. Pair that with waist and hip measurements. Your waist should be about half your height, and if weight drops but waist doesn't shrink, you're losing muscle, not fat.
to let the numbers on the scale go to your phone. You don't even have to look. You can just let the numbers on the scale go to the phone. Once a week, you also do your waist and your hip measurement. That's when you take the average to see what's happening. Because if we look at the numbers every single day, they go like, they make no sense whatsoever. You're, you're overhydrated, you're dehydrated, you're constipated, like makes no sense whatsoever. You know, and the other piece is when we're looking at bioimpedance, we're looking at your total body water. This is a proxy for your fat-free mass. When you have more muscle, it's the biggest thing that we can shift, right, is muscle mass. Muscle has carbohydrates and water that store in it, and so more muscle, more water. So it's how we can determine your total body water, how we determine your fat-free mass, and your fat-free mass is how we're going to predict your muscle mass because that's going to be the thing changing. You're not going to step on, go, I put on a pound of bone, like that's not happening. So that's the first thing. And then we do a waist and a hip. So we can do a waist to height, which your waist should be half You're, you're half the size of your height in inches, or waist to hip, which should be 0.8 or less. 0.7 is better waist to hip. Men, 1 or less. And we, we do this because if you're losing weight, but you're not losing your waist, you are making yourself worse, not better.
