Weight Loss is NOT a Linear Equation

Your results are coming (tomorrow night) as I seem to be having a run of very busy weekends, (or is that weekends busy with running!) but I've had a quick scan of some of your emails and I thought I'd pass on this message to you.

How is it that you can do everything right - and lose nothing on the scales?  Because your weight is not an exact equation - well certainly not one we can calculate.  Eat pizza and have a few drinks the night before weigh in and the salt from the pizza may cause your weight to rise by as much as 1 kg (possibly even 2) by the next day, due to fluid retention.  But think that through.  A 1 kg increase in body fat, requires you to have consumed 7,700 calories MORE than what you need to eat to maintain your weight. If you've eaten well for the rest of the week,  did you pizza and drinks equate to at least 7,700?  I dont think so.  So what the scale shows is not  a real weight gain ( or even a lack of loss ("help my weight stayed the same"?)  but a daily fluid variation which will return to normal over the next few days.  In fact, stick to you guns and you'll get a double whammy loss the next week - when you see the real results of two weeks worth of good nutritional intake.  But thats the key isn't it?  Don't get despondent and throw in the towel.  Believe in yourself and you will eventually reap the rewards

And this is why we measure ourselves.  The scales will go up and down sometimes like a yo yo. The graph above is what a typical weight loss graph looks like.  But measurements tend to be much more stable.  Feeling bloated and cheated on the scales - check your waist measurement. (in the morning)   If its the same or going down  - that's exactly where you want to be.