Here's the Cliff Notes:
Scale weight has barely any relevance at all to what you're trying to accomplish, unless your ONLY goal is to get smaller. As in, lose both fat and muscle mass. As this is obviously not the case, well:
Work hard, use sound principles, get body fat testing, or measure your progress by how you look.
If that's not enough, read The Scale Mentality - Weight Loss Forum .
Basically, stop your whining, ask questions if you're at all unsure about training or energy balance, and put in the work. Striving for excellence is not a conditional thing. You don't do it because your scale, your mommy or Papa Smurf tells you, "Good job!" You do it because to be great is the human drive.
In short, what Chillen said, just not anywhere near as nice.
Also, get bodyfat testing means by someone else, as anything you can do yourself (without some very expensive machinery and rather sophisticated remotes, or a rather extensive collection of floaters), is unlikely to be more than nearly as much of a waste of time as worshiping your scale.
Recommend checking out the local uni/college's kinesiology department. They'll often give you good deals, and actually know what they're doing. Most "trainers" at public "gyms" know less about.. well, anything, than you do. Which is not to say the kinesiology students/grads know all that much, either, but they are usually practiced at taking proper skinfold measurements, which is all that matters for your purposes.
Edit: let me give you a real world example. I kicked the **** out of myself all summer, for which I was rewarded by gaining 1 lb. However, having had the foresight to get bodyfat testing done beforehand, and stick with it until I had some objective feedback (see: not my expensive bodyfat scale that sucks), I later discovered that I had gained 13 lbs of muscle while losing 12 of fat. Scale says, all your hard work equals failure. Bodyfat testing says, near-perfect summer. While you should remain committed either way, it's nice to get the truth when the truth is good, right?
Scale weight has barely any relevance at all to what you're trying to accomplish, unless your ONLY goal is to get smaller. As in, lose both fat and muscle mass. As this is obviously not the case, well:
Work hard, use sound principles, get body fat testing, or measure your progress by how you look.
If that's not enough, read The Scale Mentality - Weight Loss Forum .
Basically, stop your whining, ask questions if you're at all unsure about training or energy balance, and put in the work. Striving for excellence is not a conditional thing. You don't do it because your scale, your mommy or Papa Smurf tells you, "Good job!" You do it because to be great is the human drive.
In short, what Chillen said, just not anywhere near as nice.
Also, get bodyfat testing means by someone else, as anything you can do yourself (without some very expensive machinery and rather sophisticated remotes, or a rather extensive collection of floaters), is unlikely to be more than nearly as much of a waste of time as worshiping your scale.Recommend checking out the local uni/college's kinesiology department. They'll often give you good deals, and actually know what they're doing. Most "trainers" at public "gyms" know less about.. well, anything, than you do. Which is not to say the kinesiology students/grads know all that much, either, but they are usually practiced at taking proper skinfold measurements, which is all that matters for your purposes.
Edit: let me give you a real world example. I kicked the **** out of myself all summer, for which I was rewarded by gaining 1 lb. However, having had the foresight to get bodyfat testing done beforehand, and stick with it until I had some objective feedback (see: not my expensive bodyfat scale that sucks), I later discovered that I had gained 13 lbs of muscle while losing 12 of fat. Scale says, all your hard work equals failure. Bodyfat testing says, near-perfect summer. While you should remain committed either way, it's nice to get the truth when the truth is good, right?
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