Ok let’s say you have a kg each of flour and a kg of chicken meat. Which would be more difficult to place in a small paper bag? If you said chicken, excellent go to the top of the class. Why? Well in this instance the flour is far bulkier and a slightly bigger bag is needed to hold it all.

Now if we change the objects so the flour is the fat in our body and the chicken is the muscle tissue and instead of a small paper bag we use a pair of jeans - what happens? Excellent again. The exact same. So we can reason that weight gain/loss on the scales can consist of many things:

Fluid – maybe you have just drunk a pint of water or just been to the loo
Food – have you just eaten?
Muscle tissue – has your new programme built some muscle tissue
Fat – how much have you lost

Fortunately as muscle tissue is heavier than fat and fluid there is another way. We can use our everyday clothes as a monitoring tool. Once they start to feel looser you are on your way. Far, far easier than jumping on the scales and fretting over a 1ib gain. Of course it could just as easily be a loss but how many people weight themselves at a different time each day and then expect the results to consistently stack up. You can’t weight yourself before breakfast one morning and then after the next and expect the results to mean anything. Even better remove this fixation with the scales and let your clothing provide the feedback.