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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

When a Kg is more than a Kg...

The other day I posted about whether a calorie is a just a calorie and today another conundrum....

If someone came to see me for advice about "losing weight" 12 months ago, and at the end of those 12 months had lost 1 kg on the scales, you'd be guessing they were not too happy about their results.  Right?

But what about if in the 12 months, the before and after photos looked like this:

This is Matt, a facebook friend of mine from Adelaide.  And its not my work, its his (obviously) and his trainer's Philip Ward from PumpedUp Personal Training.  Before photo - 80kgs, After photo 79kgs.

You see, once again its fantastic evidence of why scales don't tell the story that you are looking for.  Matt is certainly not disappointed with his 1kg loss weight loss - he described as the best investment he ever made.  In fact he lost about 9% body fat and gained a lot of lean muscle mass.  Think about the figures I send you each week - if you are doing things right your lean muscle mass should be going up, and your body fat going down.

Many of you are making great gains that lead to these sort of results - regardless of what the scales tell you. In fact two people on the leaderboard at the moment haven't lost more than a kg or so - but their measurements and changing bodies tell a different story don't they?

Next post is about whether you need to exercise to lose weight, and if you do, what sort of exercise should it be.  What are your thoughts?


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