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RE: The 1st Steemit Fitness Challenge - 20 Years Out Of Shape - WORKOUT 004 (Weight Check Added)
Your weight shouldn't really matter. Believe it or not, muscle is heavier than fat, so you could be disappointed in the meaningless number.
It would be better to find out your body fat percentage of you can. That's the important number and that's the one you're going to see move at a steady pace. Your weight on the other hand will just fluctuate and piss you off lol. Which is what demotivates many people.
I knew that, actually. With as little muscle mass as I currently have right now, and with as an aerobic a workout as I'm doing, I expect to see my weight decrease before it increases. If I start also doing weights to get the anaerobic workout, I'd start building muscle and begin seeing my weight increase sooner.
Would that not be accurate?
Yeah, as long as you know not to be disappointed by the number when it fluctuates. I wrote in my last post about how the metabolism affects your weight in so many ways, it's very difficult to control and a lot of people beat themselves up over it. Since this is your first time in 20 years though, you should do really well as you probably haven't done any damage to your metabolism in the past if you haven't done crazy diets.