TEFAL Weight Watchers WZ7000F0 Manual page 58

Tips on tracking your weight
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To control your weight and figure, you must know your body composition
(including your fat mass).
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Muscles and fat mass, which essentially make up your weight, are
indispensable for life, and must be distributed evenly. This distribution
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varies according to your sex, age and height.
Muscles allow you to carry out physical activities, lift objects and move
without difficulty. The higher the muscle mass the more energy it
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consumes and thereby contributes to weight control.
Fat mass functions as insulation, protection and energy reserve. It is inert
and stores surplus calories, if you eat more than what you burn. Physical
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exercise helps you to reduce it, whereas a sedentary lifestyle increases it.
In high quantities, fat mass is dangerous to health (cardiovascular risks,
EN cholesterol, etc.).
If you are on a diet, the scales will help you to control the loss of your fat
mass while making sure your lean mass stays the same. This is helpful
because an unsuitable diet can result in loss of muscle. However, only
muscles consume energy.
This means that if you lose muscles, you will burn fewer calories and your
body will store the fat. Therefore you cannot reduce your fat mass on a
lasting basis without maintaining your muscle mass. These scales will help
you to monitor your diet and control the balance of your body composition
over time.
To get the best out of your appliance, the body measurement must always
be taken in the same conditions:
– Measurements must be taken barefoot (direct contact with the skin).
Your feet must be dry and correctly positioned on the electrodes, see
page 2. Caution: if your feet are too calloused, the measurement may be
distorted
– Preferably once a week first thing in the morning (to avoid weight
fluctuations during the day due to your food intake, digestion or physical
activity)
– 15 minutes after you get up, so that the water in your body can
circulate to your lower limbs.
It is also important to make sure that there is no contact between your legs
(thighs, knees, calves), or between your feet. If necessary, slide a sheet of
paper between your legs.
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