Hey everybody, welcome back to Snack Cast.Â
And so today it’s gonna be rapid fire. A couple of days ago, we discussed why the scale doesn’t matter. Well, what if you’re trying to lose some weight? And you’re kind of hitting a roadblock? Well, what do we watch for?
There are a lot of reasons why the weight might not be coming off. And it’s frustrating, right? We talked about the fact that people shouldn’t be watching that as their primary source. But if you’re like me, and I’m doing everything I should be doing, and this is so frustrating, as Scott said, we’re gonna give you some quick hits. What do you think is probably the number one mistake people make?
I didn’t really have these in order. I would tell you that you’re adding muscle. It’s an observation. You’re adding muscle when you’re losing fat. And muscle we all know is denser and heavier than fat. So when you look at the scale, you go, it’s not really moving in the right direction, when in fact that actually going back to what we said the other day, that a better marker is how your clothes fit. Right?
The next thing I would tell you is time. You haven’t given it enough time. Many people didn’t gain, 29, 30 pounds over a month, and that occurred over, years to decades. Then they expect it to come off. I’m not seeing a pound come off, you know, every two weeks, it just doesn’t operate like that and that can actually go both ways. You can kind of see rapid change at first and then you’ll plateau. So again it’s about the journey and changing the behavior not what’s happening right at that moment,
Too many carbs, and too many sugars. See this quite a bit of time, if you’re not watching specifically what you eat. The stuff that’s labeled as healthy and it’s garbage.
Yeah, I make fun of the Welch’s fruit snacks that my kid eats and you know, vitamin C pasted all over this thing. And it looks like it’s good for you. And it’s actually a gummy bear. Actually, my oldest kid is diabetic. And that is one of his emergency reserves.
And you know, it can come in many forms again. We can do a whole snack cast on that one. Gluten Intolerance is an interesting one. You can be gluten intolerant. And you know, that comes up on you after decades of eating gluten.
So gluten intolerance is one thing, the advanced case of gluten intolerance is, celiac disease. But it is fascinating if you’ve never gone to YouTube and looked up a video about what gluten is.
Gluten can cause swelling, it can cause poor digestion. It can just add to your weight gain as well. Working out but eating more. The old I did this. So I earned an ice cream. And that happens way too often. And then following that up is binge eating. You did what you were supposed to do for 13 straight days. And on the 14th day, you’re gonna go eat a large, yep, pepperoni pizza.
Stress plays into that. Stress is a big one. As well too. You can be doing everything right. If your stress is out of balance. Stress plus hormones, and it could be bad. And what’s one of the best things to deal with stress? Sleep? Yes. Make sure you get enough sleep.
Yeah, that one we can point out and again, throwing my wife under the bus, pediatric ER nurse. She works all kinds of weird hours. And some days, some weeks she can work that really deep night shift. And she starts to see her weight fluctuate. And she is doing everything right. So poor sleep habits and stress can absolutely play a role.
So don’t go changing. Oh, this is not working. Over a very short period of time. It’s important to look at the long game. Make mild tweaks, when you make a major change we notice that in business. When you make a lot of tweaks at one time that effectively is a major tweak.
Don’t worry. It’s the old flywheel analogy. So probably last is really you’re doing a little binge eating, you’re doing a little celebratory eating after the workout, or you know, maybe you’re not watching calorie deficit food diary it’s a big deal and many people use My Fitness Pal there are a few digital ones that you can look at but good old fashioned pad and paper. If I write it down then I really then there’s the guilt from oh, I binge eat and I didn’t want to write that down, so you don’t want to write down, and that one you want to write down, the seven days or six days of good. So always be honest with yourself.
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Keep moving. See ya.
