Chapter

The scale is a measurement. It is a lousy motivator.

From How Body Composition Tracking Keeps You Motivated | Total Health and Fitness by Caleb Sitzmann

Concepts

  1. Scale Noise

    "The bathroom scale is not useless. It is simply the wrong tool to hang your motivation on, because it moves for reasons that have nothing to do with progress: water shifts, salt, sleep, stress, the t

  2. Body Composition

    "Body composition data, reviewed on a sensible schedule, does the opposite. It smooths out the noise and answers the question you actually care about: is my body changing in the direction I want?"

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