X-post from LPT: If your 2020 resolution is to lose weight and you want to step on the scale everyday, be consistent on the conditions in which you weigh yourself. Water and waste weight can make your scale fluctuate around 5 lbs on a daily basis.

If you are losing weight for the first time, you can be easily discouraged if you are weighing yourself on a daily basis and you do not understand how to properly weigh yourself. Be consistent. If you weigh yourself after pooping and working out, do that every day so that your weight is sans water and sans waste. If you do not, you will see your weight go back up after the previous day showing a loss. That's disheartening but is deceiving. A gallon of water is 8.34 lbs. Think about that. After pooping and exercising, you weigh 180 lbs. If you drink half a gallon of water without dispelling any urine, you will weigh 184.17 within that time.

Here are some additional tips to for your weight loss goals in 2020:

• Goals because you should take this a week at a time. Aim to lose .5 to 1 lb a week. Set your first goal to 5 lbs loss. If you aim too high, the process will seem to take way too long.
• To lose weight, there is only ONE program that works, the caloric deficit. You can do this with or without exercise. There is no magic program otherwise. Use an app to log your calories and log it every day. It doesn't have to be exact, but do not lie to yourself. No one cares but you.
• You should exercise with your weight loss. Exercise will not only help you accelerate the process, but it will make you look physically healthier. It does not matter how you exercise. Cardio, strength, or whatever else works at this stage until you figure out your long term goals at a later point. For both the ladies and gents that do not want to look BufF, you will not unless you intentionally try. You will look fit but no way will you look like a bodybuilder unless you are aiming to. That takes a lot of work that, quite frankly, you do not have the discipline for in your current state.
• NO. Muscle will not displace fat weight when you are in a caloric deficit. You will still lose weight if you are exercising and eating less.
• Do not worry about all the noise. Macros this and paleo that. None of that matters unless the gimmick motivates you, which it does not. Eat less. Be consistent. That is all.
• Go to the gym. Ask for help if you are lost. The only ones that will judge you are those who have more insecurities than you. Planet Fitness, despite their judgement of fitness junkies, is an amazing place to start your fitness goals. Cheap and no bullshit.
• Good luck. DM me if you need help with your 2020 fitness goals.

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