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Elastic waist-band pants are the enemy to everyone trying to maintain or achieve an ideal weight. Isn’t it amazing how they allow people to gain tons of weight without having to acknowledge it? Are you one of those people in stretchy pants? If so……go denim shopping. Jeans rarely lie. At that rate, neither does the scale.<\/p>\n

I’ve had several new clients come in lately who’ve underestimated their weight by well over ten pounds. How does that happen? Elastic waist-bands. Now, I’m not writing this to pick on pants. I’m writing this, because I\u2019ve recently experienced an influx of people who just have no clue where they are\u00a0physically. When they tell me they “‘think” they weigh 146, but find out they actually weigh 159 … alarms go off in my head.<\/p>\n

Thirteen pounds isn’t an enormous amount of weight to gain, but it’s not irrelevant either. Do you think if they had weighed themselves weekly or even bi-weekly they would have put the brakes on before they gained that much? Yeah. I think so. I’m not a proponent of obsessing about weight as you may already know; \u00a0I work to increase my clients overall health and help them to achieve their fitness goals. But weight is a factor in fitness. It just is. Weigh too much and you increase your chances of diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, injuries, etc…<\/p>\n

Denial doesn’t do us any favors. If you have an issue, deal with it. If it’s your waistline…measure it. Ever wonder how people get to 300, 400 or 500 pounds? They were in denial! Sure, they may have realized they weren’t slim and trim anymore, but I’m confident most just avoided the scale after they hit 250. Then they just invested in pants with stretchy waist-bands.<\/p>\n

Don’t be that guy. Don’t be that girl. Get real with yourself. If you believe you might have gained weight, jump on the scale and find out.\u00a0Get educated on how to solve your problem, create a plan and stick with it. Then MONITOR your progress.<\/p>\n