Tracking Results, Gets Results

If you're not tracking results, how can you know if you are changing your body?

What do I track, and how often do I track?
Obviously, you are going to be tracking results that you care about.
At the very least, it would be.

Weight
Waist
Chest
Upper Arm
Hips
Thighs

Having these measurements, and comparing them regularly will allow you to see exactly how your body is changing.

If you have increased your exercise, you will find that certain body parts will not decrease very rapidly, or not at all.

And, you will see where your weight is coming off.

Sometimes you don't see any weight loss, but you will see changes in your waist, or other body parts.

If you find that you are stuck at an unchanging place in both weight and circumferences for a couple of weeks, it is time to re-evaluate what you are doing. It is quite possible that your body has reached an equilibrium state in what it burns compared to what is taken in.

But, we all know that it is probably due to us "slipping" somewhere.

It is time to re-evaluate your habits and get see which ones you are slipping on.

Funny how it always comes back to take control.

But, If you are not tracking results...
How could you know what to work on?

But how often do I record results?
What are reasonable changes?
What are attainable goals?

Make it a game

Set up a Sunday Morning Date with someone to help each other get accurate, proper measurements. These are nearly impossible to get consistently by yourself.
If you go it alone, you will find some very odd seeming variations in the numbers you are recording.

Yes, I said recording.

This is the kind of thing for a log book or a computer spreadsheet.

Maybe you are interested in not only weight loss, but building some bigger musculature...
Add in the body parts that you are working on.
Go full blown head to toe measurements.
Add in neck, shoulders, lower arms, and calves and begin tracking those results

All of these change as our lifestyles change.
You might find some very interesting things about yourself, if you keep a long term log, and look back over the changes to your body and compare them to the things that were happening in your life at that time.
If you keep a body log and a journal...
Just think of the interesting times you will have in a number of years, looking back at where you were, and where you are.

Write it down,
Keep a journal,
Track your results...

See what is working, and what is not.

You could try out the Free Fitness Log - Free Online Diet and Exercise Journal from my-calorie-counter.com.

It's way more than a calorie counter.

Or something as simple as our core exercise tracking sheet.

You might also want to start a Diet Journal to keep track of what you eat.

If you don't know what's happening, you can't control the outcome.

Enjoy the Journey,
Philip Kustner

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