Why does the Tortoise Diet promote keeping track of the amount of fat weight and the amount of lean weight that comprise a person’s total body weight?
The scale can sometimes tell tall tales! Rather than the loss of mere water or (even worse) the loss of lean muscle tissue, the goal of the Tortoise Diet is the loss of stored body fat. For this reason, it is critical to use additional methods to measure the true progress being made toward that goal. Tracking the loss of fat weight, and recording each week’s numbers on a chart provides a great visual record, and is a continual source of encouragement and motivation. Additionally, tracking and charting the maintenance of lean weight ensures that fat loss can continue without encountering the weight-loss plateau that is so common with other diets.
