How often should I weigh myself and when of the day? What type of scale to choose? Here are some expert tips to well use your scope … and especially to keep good relations with him!
When you want to lose weight, relationships with our balance quickly become conflicting. These are some tips to learn to weigh yourself better.
If you are watching your line, you can opt for a very simple scope, which will tell you your weight, with a digital display or not. It’s simple and quite efficient.
Some of you will prefer to opt for a person with impedance meter. This type of device should allow you to Know the percentage of fat mass of your body, your water mass or muscle mass rate. It sends a low intensity and painless electric current that travels your body. And as fat is not as conductive as other tissues, the device can assess the share of fat in your body.
Should we invest in an ultra-efficient balance?
The rates displayed by The perfected scales should be handled with caution. “The sophisticated scales with impedance meter used at home are not necessarily as reliable as that, explains Solveig Darrigo-Dartinet, dietician. In general, you must be standing on these devices, some therefore only take into account the lower part of the body. Suddenly, the fatty, muscular or water masses indicated do not concern the upper part of the body. In the hospital is more reliable: it is placed on the person, it is lying., The electrical circuit is therefore more reliable and concerns the whole body.
Please note, impedance-meter balances should not be used by pregnant women or people with a cardiac stimulation device.
To monitor your line or if you want to gain or lose weight, weigh yourself at regular intervals but not too often.
“Once a week, it’s ideal,” said dietician Solveig Darrigo-Dartinet. Indeed, When we weigh each other every day, the fluctuations observed from one day to the other do not necessarily have to do with the fatty mass. This can be linked to the water that is more or less depending on the food consumed. It is not recommended to weigh every day or several times a day: adapting your behavior according to what the balance is indicated daily is counterproductive in the short term. Doing a lot of sport or not eating fat at all in a day because the scale has announced a little too high number in the morning, it is not healthy and even toxic to the mind and the body. “” And if we see, for example, that for two or three weeks in a row, the weight increases by several hundred grams, there you have to be careful. But if you adapt its diet every day according to what the balance says in the morning, it does not go in the direction of the balance of the food. Becoming a daily balance of balance is useless!“Complete Muriel Marreau, by Weight Watchers France.
When you only weigh each other once a week, you have to choose your day. If you are used to the excesses of the weekend, do not weigh yourself on Monday. If you dine with friends on Wednesdays, avoid getting on your level Thursday. Think about the day that suits you best, depending on your habits. “Why not Friday morning, on an empty stomach? It is on the eve of the weekend and we can then trust the weight obtained,” explains Solveig Darrigo-Dartinet.
Most professionals advise Weigh yourself on an empty stomach in the morning. If it is not possible for you or you don’t like this moment, it is not the most important. It is especially essential to Weigh yourself at a fixed time every weekin the same outfit. “Some women thus prefer to weigh themselves at the end of the morning, adds Muriel Marreau by Weight Watchers. They are puffy in the morning when they wake up, they do water retention and are less heavy at the end of the morning.”
Many readers adapt their diet if the needle or screen indicate a weight higher than the desired weight. Marie-Thérèse thus underlines that the results indicated by the scale weigh on her: “It breaks my morale, where it goes back to me …”
Sarah weighs herself three times a day: “It has the effect of modulating my mood … Either my weight pleases me, good humor guaranteed, or no, and I feel bad all the holy day. If my weight pleases me, I would tend to do more things, to have fun, etc. If it is not the case, I will spend the day to eat. It is very bad and I am aware of it, I would like to stop … Once a week because it has disproportionate consequences on my lifestyle. “
For Martine, on the contrary, the scale is not a torture. She weighs herself once a week on average and her scale is “a coach, a girlfriend”. The weight indicated on her screen is for her “a precious indication on the efforts made or the differences, which allows to rebalance in this case and, after 50 years, it is all the more precious. But it is not an anxiety or a stress, it is more an aid … like a friend who would say to you:” Oh! Watch out there! “Or” it’s good, continue “.
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It is not good to be obsessed with its weight, one should not become dependent on this daily dictatorship of the balance, warns the dietician Solveig Darrigo-Dartinet. It is neither beneficial for the mind, nor for the body “without banishing it, however, you have to know how to put distance from your scale.” We must not neglect this tool because it is useful, continues the professional. But there are other barometers: a garment in which you enter again because sport has refined you, measurement of the waist … “ More importantly, the verdict of the balance in the morning should not determine the food to adopt or the intensity of the sporting activity to be practiced during the day. “You have to be in the feeling, in pleasure also from time to time, concludes Solveig Darrigo-Dartinet. The important thing is to relearn how to eat, to know when you are hungry, to work on taste. And especially not to hesitate to be helped if necessary: the earlier you consult, the more effective solutions. rails. “ |
Thanks to Solveig Darrigo-Dartinet, dietician
More information on its site: Nutriveig, the path of nutrition
Thanks also to Muriel Marreau, research and development director at Weight Watchers France. More information on the site: Weight Watchers France.
