Why didn't the scale go down this week on your diet?

So you're reading this and you might have been following the diet for one week, two weeks, three weeks, or four weeks. You've been diligently following the plan. You've been doing exactly what you need to do. You've even been going to bed early. All of those good things will help to make you look, feel and be more healthy overall one thing though, even though you've made all this effort, the scales have gone up instead of down. Let's discuss this.

First and foremost, let's look at why you might be really disappointed. One of the main reasons people get disappointed is because they've put in so much effort into changing their life. That's not an easy feat. So congratulations on making this big change, because it's not an easy process. If you want more tips on how to make exercise a habit, check this link. Sometimes we see a big drop in the first week and we see a drop in the second week or, maybe just the first week, and then all of a sudd

Hormone fluctuations. Hormones are one of our best friends. It gives us the ability to be able to reproduce. It gives us our lovely shape. It gives us our skin tone and complexion and helps keep us healthy. At the same time, fluctuations in our hormones, due to a number of reasons can actually cause the scale to look like it's gone up. But it's actually not true weight gain. So you can hold more water as a result of your hormones going up. It's very unlikely that in a week if you put on two kilo

Ironically, let's talk about food in your gut. So if you have a whole bunch of food in your gut, maybe you've started eating more fiber that fiber sitting in your gut, first of all, is going to be holding more water within it until we pass it out in the form of a number two and also it will be increasing the weight that's on the scales.

Another reason why you might have increased in weight this week is the time you ate your last meal. So if you usually eat your meal at 6 pm and then you usually weigh yourself the next morning at 9 am. Then the next week, if you eat your last meal at 11 pm and you've had to get up early at 7 am for a flight, all of a sudden you've lost extra time sleeping and on top of that you've actually had your meal closer to the time that you're weighing. So, therefore, there's less time for your body to di

The number of carbohydrates that you have. So if you add more carbohydrates the day before, your body will hold more water. So for every gram of carbohydrate, your body holds an extra three grams of water with that. Now, that doesn't mean we stop eating carbohydrates. In fact, the opposite is true. We need carbohydrates for healthy hormone function. But remember, for every extra one gram of carbohydrate your body is actually four grams heavier, which means that we can easily put on a little bit

The fifth point, you had a bit more salt the day before. So it's not such a bad thing and it's actually quite essential for our bodies. It's the amount of salt that we have that can change the amount of water that we're holding for the day. Now unless you've been told by a GP or you have high blood pressure, you don't usually have to heavily monitor the amount of salt that you're putting into your food. But we still want to make sure that we don't have big fluctuations from day to day as well. S

The sixth point, then picking a new exercise or doing a new exercise regime. So whenever you do a completely new exercise regime, you're giving your body a completely new stimulus to work with, which is great because it's going to be adding more results if you've been on the same program for a little while. Check out our other blog post on progressive overload. If you want to see how often you should be changing your program because it's different than what you think it might be. When you create