Weight Loss: Exercising And Scale Rising......

So you have been seeing a personal trainer, exercising five days a week, and making tremendous healthy changes in your diet and your weight increases! First and foremost, there are a couple of questions to ask yourself before panicking. Ask yourself, did I really need to loose weight in the first place? How do I feel? Has my body fat or my basal metabolic index decreased? Has my cardiovascular endurance improved? Am I stronger?

All of these questions are what you should ask yourself before panicking and feeling like a failure at your weight loss attempt. Many factors can contribute to you seeing the scale rising as opposed to decreasing.

An example is you converting your fat into muscles and naturally as a result of the muscle weight you gain weight. In reality, you have benefited far more in gaining muscle than loosing those couple of pounds. Muscle is far more beneficial to have as the more muscle you have the higher your metabolic rate (metabolism) will be. So you will burn more calories at rest having muscle as opposed to having less muscle.

Your BMI, bodyfat, circumference measurements, and how you feel are important indicators in attempting to loose weight. NOT THE SCALE. So slowly try to wean off the numbers on the scale being the most important indicator for weight loss success, and look into other avenues to measure success.