Submerged Lands 2008

With a new year fast approaching, many of us will break out that familiar resolution of losing weight. Whether your resolution is to lose a specific amount of weight or simply the nebulous “lose some weight,” you will probably be starting a diet and exercise program and will be checking your progress on the bathroom scale.

You might start by going to the gym, you might start by cutting out sweets, or you might start with something more rigorous. Either way, you will undoubtedly start off checking your beginning weight on the bathroom scale. After the first day of working out or dieting, you will again check your weight on the bathroom scale. After the second day of working out or dieting, you will again check your weight on the bathroom scale. After the third day of working out or dieting, you will again check your weight on the bathroom scale. I think you see where this is going.

While it is good to know how you are progressing towards your goal, constantly checking your weight on the bathroom scale can have a negative effect. Both dieting and exercise require tremendous sacrifice and personal discipline to maintain. Passing up on a second helping, eating carrots instead of potato chips and getting up in the morning to go to the gym are difficult mental hurdles. Each action tests your resolve to see how well you can ignore temptation. If you work hard and sacrifice for several days in a row and fail to see any improvements on the bathroom scale, disappointment and discouragement can easily set in.

Checking the bathroom scale too frequently can make every positive action you take towards your goal more difficult. When results are slow in coming, it is very easy to question the value of all of the hard work you are putting in. Shouldn’t that hour on the treadmill and salad for lunch have taken off more than a single pound? Shouldn’t the calories given up in no longer drinking soda have had some effect on your weight? Shouldn’t there be at least some immediate results from all of the hard work?

Everybody is different. Your metabolism, current level of health, body type, and choice of type of diet and/or exercise will make your results unique when compared to any other person working on the same New Year’s resolution. Just because your friend immediately lost 10 pounds does not mean that you can expect the same results. When you do not see results immediately, you need to continue to tell yourself that the changes you have made are positive and will ultimately have beneficial health effects. The weight might not come off all at once, but continuing your new lifestyle choices will eventually pay off.

Rather than weighing yourself every day, pull out the bathroom scale once a week. Seeing the progress you made over seven days will be far more satisfying than looking every day and will allow you do avoid thinking that your hard work is for nothing if you do not see progress every day.

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There are many medical conditions that can be adversely affected by the patients weight. Carrying too much weight can dramatically increase the risk for diabetes, heart disease, some types of cancer, and many other serious health conditions. On the other end of the scale, not maintaining a high enough weight can also cause problems. By knowing one’s healthy target weight and regularly monitoring their weight with good floor scales, one can lower one’s risk for these conditions, or in some cases lower their severity after they have been contracted.

Weight is a very important factor in evaluating health and health risks. That’s one reason why the first thing the doctor does when a patient comes in to the office for a check-up is to ask them to step on the medical scales for an updated weight reading. If the doctor notices a significant change in the patient’s weight they may recommend a diet or an exercise program to get the patient’s weight back in line.

With some of the modern digital home floor scales, it is possible to program in the subject’s age, height and other parameters to allow the scale to calculate the subject’s healthy target weight. They may show a Body Mass Index (BMI) or even calculate the percentage of body fat of the person standing on the scale. These two measures, more than a simple weight reading, can be indicative of a person’s risk for weight related health conditions.

Often the types of issues that are related to obesity are systemic in nature. That is to say that they affect the person’s overall health and put them at further risk for other conditions as well. For example, high blood pressure can be directly related to weight, and is a strong contributing factor to a number of other health issues. High blood pressure increases the risk of heart failure, stroke, dangerous blood clots, and kidney failure. Diabetes also comes with a host of associated issues including macular degeneration, poor circulation, blood clots, and a higher risk of infection from even minor cuts or scrapes to the extremities, especially the feet.

People who have been diagnosed with either diabetes or high blood pressure need, more than anyone, to regularly monitor their weight with a good scale and to do their best to reach and maintain a healthy weight. Increasing weight after contracting high blood pressure can make the condition even worse, and necessitate a higher level of medication to help control it. By reducing one’s weight from an overweight condition to a healthy target weight, one can often see a substantial lowering of blood pressure as well, resulting in a reduced need for medication.

Because weight affects so many health conditions, the doctor’s medical scale is one of his most valuable instruments in evaluating the health of a patient. Likewise, home floor scales can be one of the most important home medical devices for those with weight related health conditions.

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