What to do when your scales don’t work



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To be honest, I feel like I have put on a bit of weight and I always appreciate having a starting weight so I can see progress of me losing weight. 

I have tried to fix my scales but at this stage it says I am 50kgs. Which I definitely am not. 

That’s ok. So instead of just not exercising until I get scales I am going to do something better. I am going to walk every day 10,000 steps. Because I know walking will help me lose weight no matter what my starting weight is. 

I definitely feel the importance of knowing the starting weight because you can quickly measure how much you are losing and how often. I don’t really like weighing myself more than once a week but I have done a weight loss app that wanted me to weigh every day. But I would rather see a kilo lost after a week then a hundred grams after a day. 

But what it comes down to is consistency. Consistently walking 10,000 steps every day including Sunday. I found when I took a day off walking I didn’t lose any weight for the week or not as much if I walked seven days a week. 

Will I buy new scales? Yes. If I can’t fix my current ones, I will at some point buy some new ones because I can’t always see the loss of weight or notice the difference. But if I drop a kilo on the scales, it really keeps me motivated for the following week to keep walking. 

Also, I found with not changing my diet and just walking I barely lost more than one kilo a week and to me that is ok. Some people losing weight will claim they lose big numbers at the beginning, like five kilos and you might feel like a failure just losing one kilo. But I am here to tell you, you are far from a failure. Twenty kilos lost at one kilo a week is twenty weeks to lose weight. That is a pretty good outcome! Of course give or take an extra five weeks to account for week / days that you are unable to walk or lose weight. 

Also, the smaller you get and the closer you get to your goal, I have heard losing weight becomes even harder or not losing a kilo tops a week. So your timeframe to lose weight may take longer.

So what if you don’t have all the resources, equipment and even clothing that some people expect you to get to start walking? Don’t worry. Just start. You don’t need special exercise clothing or any weight loss apps unless you want to. Obviously I believe investing in yourself but the most important way to invest in yourself is through time. Time to give yourself to walk to lose weight. 

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