Weight Loss Tip: no.1348

Clothes that don’t fit anymore are a great tool for seeing how weight loss is going if you don’t have, or want to use, a scale.

Care to guess why?

Yup, old jeans, dresses, buttoned shirts, and other articles of clothing that have become harder to wear with weight gain can be used to check progress because how loose or tight they feel in certain areas can often give you a better indication of a change in body composition than the scale can because the scale only measures your body’s relationship to gravity and how much mass is present at a given moment. Basically, that means that the scale doesn’t differentiate between bone, water, muscle, fat, waste, organs, and stomach contents. Knowing that is important because there’s the fact that muscle is denser than fat and takes up less space. So if you add muscle by resistance training while dieting, your weight on the scale may increase even though you’re losing inches. The use of clothes allows for you to more easily notice this change that the scale doesn’t often reflect.

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Monster Longe

Monster Longe is a personal trainer in San Diego. He has been lifting weights for +25 years and training clients in the gym and online for about half of that time. When not working with clients or making content that's easy to read, understand, and apply to everyday life, he enjoys long walks and leaving buildings crushed and entire city blocks decimated in his wake.

Weight Loss Tip: no.1348

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