06/05/2026
You’re doing the work. Eating well, moving your body, showing up to the gym. But the scales aren’t moving and it’s really getting you down.
Here’s why you need to know :
The scales measure everything at once. Water, food in transit, glycogen, muscle, bone, inflammation, hormones. Fat is one small part of that number and without other info, we aren’t sure what is really going on.
So when it goes up (and it will, constantly, for reasons completely outside your control) you have no idea what actually changed. That’s not a you problem. That’s a tool problem.
And if you don’t have a huge amount to lose, the losses are small. Half a pound a week is a good loss when you’re looking at a couple of stone to lose (frustrating but true and annoyingly it’s sometimes less). But we need other info to see what is going on.
This is what I use with my clients instead.
Weigh daily, same time, same conditions. Then look at the trend across a fortnight or month. Add measurements once a month. Notice how long you stay full, how your energy holds, how your workouts feel.
Now you have a picture. Actual data. Not a number that ruins your week before Monday has even got started.
If your trend is flat after four weeks of doing the work, that hi t means your not quite in a deficit. We can fix that more easily than you think . That’s information. And information is fixable.
Send this to the friend who texts you every Monday about the scales. She needs this more than she needs another opinion about what she ate at the weekend.
