26/08/2026
Fat loss and scale weight loss aren’t always the same thing, yet for most of the big slimming companies their sole focus is to get you focused on that scale weight loss.
They tend to reward the scale weight loss with some form of certificate and it is public humiliation (even if not intentional) if the scales don’t budge. Naturally all this will do is build a bad relationship with the scales.
Scale weight can fluctuate for many normal human biological reasons...and a couple of pounds in weight gain isn’t always something to feel like a failure over.
Most of you have probably seen this picture of me before but just a quick brief for those that haven’t: the picture on the left was a very scale weight obsessed me, I think I even joined a slimming club at the time and did all the cardio to become “more toned”. I was roughly around 9 stone in weight and a size 8 but I still thought I was “fat” because I didn’t have a thigh gap and my scale weight only budged about a couple of pounds here or there.
Luckily one day I saw sense and completely changed my outlook on nutrition, training, my relationship with the scales and how I saw myself BUT let’s pretend I had continued ploughing money into said weight loss club.
The picture on the right more or less represents how my body is now yet I am a whole 1 stone and a half heavier and a bigger clothes size. Does that mean I would have been a failure?? Does that mean I would have missed out on a certificate just because I chose health over weight loss?
Everyone and every body is different and there are certain aspects to these weight loss groups that I agree with but scale weight should be something of wonder and study rather than a basis for fatloss progress.
I take scale weight to ensure my clients are eating the right amount of calories and macros for their goal and circumstances. I use it to look at trends, and I certainly don’t use it as a means of reward or punishment.
