the scale if you find that when you step on the scale that number that you see either makes or
breaks your day you're gonna want to watch this video and before we dive into it today if this
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hey what's going on my name is sky i'm the founder of schuyfit where we help men burn fat
and optimize their biology in three simple steps step one is to implement some sort of fasting
routine that allows you to reduce the calories you consume while optimizing your fat burn machinery
step two is avoiding cutting any foods out but making smarter ingredient choices that allow
you to optimize that fat burning machinery and then step three is to get into a solid movement
routine that elevates the results you see now working with the men that i have and a couple
women i've seen that the scale can either be someone's best friend or their worst enemy so
i really just wanted to talk about it so before anything else i just want to start with something
bold if you experience any emotion when you step on the scale i'm talking good or bad
you've already lost because if you feel an emotion when you step on a scale that tells me that your
mood is reflection of a simple number and on our weight loss journey we fully understand that that
weight is never going to go straight down it will never continuously drop every single time you step
on the scale it just won't there's fluctuations could be anywhere from one to five pounds
depending on things like water intake or lack of water intake salt intake extra glycogen or lack
of in your muscles having a big meal having a big poop like whatever it is that number
when it goes down or it goes up it doesn't mean that you're gaining or losing fat and so when you
feel an emotion positive or negative from that number that's going to dictate a lot of things
now i don't think that celebrating your wins are a bad thing right it's an incredibly powerful thing
to get excited when you have these wins but i would rather you celebrate your progress when
it comes to consistency than the actual number on the scale so let's talk about that right so let's
say that your goal is to hit 180 pounds and you drop the weight you hit the number on the scale
but you have a sore throat all day every day you're always tired you have a headache your wife
leaves you right that number doesn't mean anything but for most people if done right that number can
be the road to what they really want which is to be happy with their body to have energy to
feel good to be healthy and so what if we took that focus in that energy and we focused less on
that number and more on the process and how we actually felt and so let's talk about the scale
for a second right because a lot of people have a misunderstanding of what the scale really is
and to me the scale is just a tool it's not good it's not bad it's just something that you can use
so the best comparison i can make is it's like a hammer right hammer is a tool the purpose of the
tool is to drive a nail into the wall you can use the hammer for something else some things that are
pretty good some things that are probably really bad but at the end of the day the purpose of the
hammer is to drive the nail into the wall and so the same exact thing goes with the scale the
purpose of the scale is to get a representation of where you are currently at with your weight
weight does not mean body fat composition weight does not mean how in shape you are how successful
you are how good of a person you are it's just about how you weigh and so along with the hammer
you also have other tools right you have a wrench you have a screwdriver you have a tape measure all
these things that can be used for different things and when it comes to fat loss it's along the same
lines right we have visual tools how we look how we physically look in the mirror how our clothes
fit us we have kinesthetic tools how we feel our energy our joints our muscles our strength and
then there's other data right resting heart rate is a good representation of your heart health
there's body fat percentage there's heart rate variability there's all these things in here that
are all opportunities to measure different parts of our fitness progress and so we look at the
scale and again it's just a tool because let me tell you where most people fall off is when they
step on the scale and maybe they have a week or two of wins straight in a row and they inevitably
hit that plateau which everyone hits now when they step on the scale they're not as happy and
they're not as excited and if they've been doing it for a while for a couple years they're probably
actually really upset and tell me when you're in a bad mood or you're in a neutral mood do
you make better decisions or worse decisions right you probably make worse decisions and so if this
is you if i'm talking to your soul right now you have to break free from this mentality and there's
a couple ways to do it so number one do the things you know you should do right continue to go to the
gym and work out continue to eat healthier and if you need help if you need support accountability
hire a coach so you know that you're doing the right things so you don't have to second guess
is this strategy actually gonna work number two celebrate the number on the scale yeah get
excited about it but celebrate the process more if you go to the gym celebrate if you eat healthy
celebrate if you complete a fast celebrate because we all know that if you stay committed
to the process and you do the things you have to do you're more likely to see those results
and if you're more likely to celebrate the things that you have to do and that you are doing you're
more likely to stay consistent and committed until you see those results and then number three just
become aware in some situations i've had people where i'm i just say don't step on the scale
don't look at the number we can evaluate how you feel consistently we can do certain things
to get pretty much guarantee that you're going to drop the weight but if that number is something
that is so negatively ingrained in you stop stepping on the scale maybe if you're stepping
on every day and you find your mood is kind of impacted on the number you see dial it back to
once a week dial it back to once a month have some sort of data if possible but don't let it
impact the way that you feel so i'm curious if you could leave me a comment below on a scale of 1 to
10 how emotionally attached do you currently feel to the number you see on the scale let me know
but besides that i hope this has been helpful for you this is something i see a lot of people battle
with and it can be really unfortunate when you have that negative reaction to a number you see
that number's meaningless that number doesn't mean you're a good person doesn't mean you're a
bad person doesn't mean anything except for how much you weigh which again that number doesn't
define you doesn't define who you are anything you are anything so this has been helpful for you as a
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things out from a to z so with that being said i appreciate you and of course as always make sure
to eat smart move more sleep deep and be grateful for this moment i'll see in the next video