{"id":455,"date":"2013-02-21T03:42:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T08:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondgorgeous\/?p=455"},"modified":"2012-12-13T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T14:38:40","slug":"a-better-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2013\/02\/a-better-measure.html","title":{"rendered":"A Better Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve been working hard on your weight loss plan &#8212; so why aren\u2019t you seeing results?\u00a0 Chances are the results are there\u00a0 &#8212; but you are looking for them in the wrong place.\u00a0 We use the scale as the primary measuring tool because it is easy. That\u2019s the reason we talk about losing <em>weight.\u00a0 <\/em>What we should really be concerned about, though, is not losing weight, but losing <em>fat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The scale can\u2019t tell you if you are losing fat, muscle, or water.\u00a0 It just shows a drop in the combined total.\u00a0 We don\u2019t care about losing water and we want to keep and increase as much of our lean muscle as possible. It\u2019s the fat we want to shed.\u00a0 The fat causes all sorts of health problems, as well as making you look fluffy.<\/p>\n<p>The tape measure may be a better tool for measuring your progress than the scale.\u00a0 As you exercise, your body will build lean muscle, which actually weighs more than fat.\u00a0 It is much more compact, though.\u00a0 As you burn up the fat for fuel and build lean muscle, your body will become tighter and more compact.\u00a0 Your clothes will fit better and you may find you can fit into those clothes that you\u2019ve been keeping in the back of your closet just in case you could ever wear them again. You may see the smaller numbers on your tape measure rather than on your scale. \u00a0 And that\u2019s what matters anyway, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 How you feel, how you look, how your clothes fit &#8212; isn\u2019t that more important than a number on the scale?<\/p>\n<p><em>Eating to live and living for Christ<\/em><br \/>\nSusan Jordan Brown<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve been working hard on your weight loss plan &#8212; so why aren\u2019t you seeing results?\u00a0 Chances are the results are there\u00a0 &#8212; but you are looking for them in the wrong place.\u00a0 We use the scale as the primary measuring tool because it is easy. That\u2019s the reason we talk about losing weight.\u00a0 What&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75,66,76,77,74],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating-plan","tag-fat","tag-fat-loss","tag-measure","tag-scale","tag-weight"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Better Measure - Beyond Gorgeous<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2013\/02\/a-better-measure.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Better Measure - Beyond Gorgeous\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You\u2019ve been working hard on your weight loss plan &#8212; so why aren\u2019t you seeing results?\u00a0 Chances are the results are there\u00a0 &#8212; but you are looking for them in the wrong place.\u00a0 We use the scale as the primary measuring tool because it is easy. 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