Many people who want to lose weight start badly by doing something really wrong, as well as stressful: they weigh themselves every day . Often several times a day. They rejoice for half a pound more or less, they ruin the day if the opposite happens, they respond to the scales like Snow White’s mirror: depending on what the scales say you try to do. Do I have an extra pound? I eat less. Do I have a pound less? I eat more, so much so that I care, the diet is working, so I deserve a small reward. And so on until the scales stall, and instead of thinking it’s normal, you abandon the diet. 

Personally, I have a body that is a big bastard. It’s not a body, it’s a war machine, set up for survival after a thermonuclear apocalypse. Too bad there is no apocalypse. I know what it means to be overweight, I know what it means to be bullied for being overweight, I have lost weight and I am a former Libra obsessive – I know what it means to hold on to that number more than anything else. 
But I learned that my body can stay even two or three weeks in low calorie without giving any positive sign on the scale or almost: only to mark a weight loss from the fourth week onwards.

I know that in weight loss, as in everything in life, consistency rewards. And I know that the weight on the scale is the result of many things: when we lose weight quickly it’s never good news, because most of that weight won’t be body fat and therefore won’t correspond to actual weight loss . Believe me, I’m not your enemy, and I know what that sense of euphoria you get when the scales go down: you feel successful and powerful. And the opposite when it goes up.

But … what if I told you that when the scales go down too fast you shouldn’t rejoice? And that when it goes up it doesn’t necessarily mean that you are fat? The flab weighs little. And the body gets rid of it with difficulty.
So if you lose a pound a week, rest assured it’s not fat. This is best understood by going to the gym: muscles swell, drawing water and nourishment in the form of muscle glycogen. The weight goes up. Does it mean that you are fat? No. In a way, you are closer to real weight loss than a diet. Like this chick who has lost six sizes of clothes, but the scale is one kilo less.