 You know, going low carb, keto or carnivore is not just about weight loss. Hey there, njrew22.com with another low carb, keto, carnivore chat. And today it's just a, I guess kind of like a milestone or something that everybody who does low carb, keto, carnivore will eventually encounter and whether you should talk about weight anymore. Now losing pounds of gravitational force as they say is one of the markers that you can use for tracking your progress and the other two most important ones in my opinion other than how you feel and how you look or how your clothes fit and your actual body fat percentage which you can probably figure out without a scale. You can use that, the belt test to figure that out because the numbers should never depress you. Like if you get down to 200 and you're there for like six months and all of a sudden you're at 210 or 208, remember your weight fluctuates probably up to 10 pounds a day. So try to weigh yourself at the exact same time every day, you know, because weighing yourself in the morning or in the mid afternoon after lunch or dinner, you're going to be disappointed. The point is always pick, the morning is good for me because that's usually the lowest, but so, you know, if you plateau and you don't know why you're plateauing and there's no other measurements or if you're not paying attention, like for me it's the belt. I can tell when I mean I have five or five notches and it's easy and if the weight goes up even as much as seven to ten pounds and your belt is somehow getting looser, maybe your belt is cheap and it's just stretching, I don't know, no. But you can tell that the clothes aren't getting tighter and even though your weight goes up there's probably a good reason and that's why you should probably invest in a semi-decent body fat scale. Body fat scale will show you that you're not really, you're actually losing weight. We lost, I think, it was over the course of six months. I stayed the same way and I was starting to get a little bummed and I didn't pay attention to the number on the scale until like, I hate to say it, I have an app. No, I actually didn't do it on the app, I take that back. You can log into their website and there's a chart you can manage. So I looked on the chart and I'm like, wow, my body fat percentage has been going steadily down even though the weight has sort of plateaued and so I did the math and it ended up being even though my weight stayed the same or even up a pound or two, I lost between eight and 10 pounds of body fat while the weight stayed the same which means my lean body mass went up. So that's something to don't get hung up especially if you've been doing the low carb keto carnivore for a long time and you're feeling good. The weight becomes much less of an issue over time. So what? I remember when I first did it and my weight went up, let's say I hit a milestone for argument sake. Let's say you were like 200 pounds your whole life and you wanted to get down to 150 and you broke 150 and you were like 147, 148 and then like a month later or two months later you're like 158, 159 and some people would get heartbroken and they'd be like, all that progress and I lost but if you still feel good and the clothes fit, you shouldn't really worry about it because your body does go through changes and the fluid has a lot to do with it. Unless you're hyper like overly obsessive about measurement and you get like the highest accuracy, flotation tanks and all sorts of electronic sensors, I would take all these with a grain of salt and use a combination of metrics like clothes, body fat percentage and your weight and generally how you feel. You should also be honest with yourself in terms of what you've been eating. If you notice the spike and it coincides with stuff like this ruby red beer that I've been drinking, even though it's only three grams of carbs, that may play a temporary role and once you kick the beer to the curb, your weight will stabilize and go back down again. I think these wheat based beers sometimes throw me off for two weeks or more. So that's it. Don't worry about the weight. The weight is just one of many and that's that. It's how you feel and just carry on. Please subscribe if you like the video. Hit the bell if you want to get notified. We do three videos a week and that's it for njroute22.com. Have a nice day.