Should You Weigh Yourself Every Day Part II

A study has been done based around weighing yourself every day involving teenage girls, what was found in this study was that it affected their weight loss programme, there were far more likely to become involved in unhealthy eating habits and practices, because of what were they were seeing on the scales every day, among the worst of the participants they were far more likely to use more drastic measures in order to lose weight.

They would take laxatives take some sort of diet pills, or make themselves become sick, teenage girls are under far more pressure these days to look stick thin like the famous supermodels on the cat walks, the study involved 2,516 participants when they were asked about their weighing habits they said that, they did weigh themselves quite frequently. The ones in junior high said that they weighed themselves quite often these were the ones that gained weight, whereas the other group who didn't weigh themselves as much didn't gain as much weight.

Another interesting twist on this story is that boys who weighed themselves frequently had no weight gain. Conclusions of this were that young girls are far more self-conscious about their weight than their health, which is where the root of problems can start such as anorexia nervosa and possibly bulimia.

Someone who was an outsider to the study said that she used to weigh herself every day, and then realised it was a waste of time she looked at herself in the mirror and decided that she looked fine, and there was no need to bother any more. When there is so much pressure from outside influences the best thing to do really is just be happy with who you are and not worry about how fat or thin you are.

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