Mistake #2: Using a Scale to Measure Success

7 Mistakes Most Golfers Make When Trying to Lose Weight and Get into Shape

Mistake #2 is Using a Scale to Measure Success.
It sounds counter-intuitive but its right on the money and here’s why.

Think about it, the scale is just a partial barometer of how you’re doing. We are all so caught up into the weight, the pounds, and the calories. To me it’s just a bunch of dieter’s mathematical gobbleegook.
(and believe me–it’s a bankrupt strategy)

Fat takes up a lot more room on your body than Muscle.

Muscle weighs a lot more than fat but doesn’t take up as much room.

On my Weight Loss for Golfers Program you will Increase your Lean Muscle Tissue and you’ll Burn Fat. 

In fact the more muscle tissue you have, the more fat you are able to burn.

So the scale may not give you the feedback that you want. (eg: In your first 2 weeks you gain 4 pounds of muscle and lose 9 pounds of fat and the scales just shows you a net loss of a measly 5 pounds.)

Yet in fact you are noticeably smaller and well on your way. So why would you want to torture yourself on a daily ritual of using a contraption that just makes you feel bad about yourself?

So I’m recommending to anyone that’s reading this…if you got a scale “throw it away” or at least put it away.

The only time you want to get on a scale is if you want to get a baseline as to where you are starting from or what your body fat percentage is…the scale can be helpful for that.

One additional time a scale can be helpful is…if you are obese and  quite heavy, the scale can let you know you are moving in the right direction before you are able to see it in the mirror and notice it by how your clothes fit.

A better gauge of your success is size and body fat percentage.

The best way to determine how you’re doing is how do your clothes fit?

What does the tape measure say? How do you look in the mirror? Are you smaller? Is there less of you there?

If you are getting smaller and your clothes are fitting looser and you look better in the mirror and feel better…you are succeeding! Keep it up.

If you’re a man and you’re wearing a size 44+ waist and you’d like to be a 36 do you really care what you’re going to weigh when you get to a 36?

I don’t think so. The answer should be no.

Whatever size you are, just start by picking a goal size that you’d like to be. (it’s all relative—you are what you are and you want to be what you want to be)

If you have a lot to lose…pick an interim size as an interim goal too. And start moving in the right direction. You can always adjust.

Because in this game size matters and it’s all about getting smaller.

When someone notices that you have lost a lot of weight they don’t go around trying to figure out what you weigh.

Nope…they notice it because there is a LOT LESS OF YOU THERE.

So pick a size not a weight.

Remember Unlike Golf…
This is a game you can WIN, by shooting even par, under par, or a little over par just about every day of your life.

Stay tuned for Mistake #3.

Golf’s Top Food and Weight Loss Coach Larry Jacobs is a contributor to multiple golf publications, a frequent talk show guest and is often written about and quoted in the golf media. With his unique method of Eating Clean, his Weight Loss for Golfers Tele-Seminar Series has helped Tour Players and Amateurs in 32 countries.

His simple promise is that he can take any Golfer from being a Fat Storer to a Fat Burner in 2 weeks or less without Dieting, Counting Calories, or Starving.

The best part is, Roger Maltbie, Don Trahan, and Allen Doyle all LOST their weight during weight gain season.

They Pushed the Start Button and Got it Done…
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