Do you know what you weigh? When you tell someone your number, do you round up a pound or two? Subtract ten? Give out the average of four different numbers you’ve gotten over the last week? In a better world, your response to such a question would be, “I don’t know!” Here are six reasons why the number on the scale doesn’t matter, and why you shouldn’t rely on it.
You’ve been gaining muscle.
If your fitness efforts revolve around toning up, it’s a bad time to weigh yourself. Resistance training means you are losing body fat, but you’re adding muscle. When you step on the scale, you might find that your weight hasn’t changed, or that it’s gone up. This does nothing to measure all of the progress you’ve made, and in fact, can be really discouraging.