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Beyond the Scale: Why Body Composition Counts
Unlock Your Health Potential with a MetaScan The MetaScan is more than just a body composition analysis—it's a powerful tool for tracking progress, optimizing nutrition, and making informed lifestyle adjustments. Unlike a standard scale, it provides in-depth insights into fat mass, muscle growth, hydration, and cellular health, helping to prevent metabolic dysfunction and support long-term well-being. Whether you're aiming for fat loss, muscle gain, or overall health improvement, the MetaScan offers precise data to keep you motivated and on track. Say goodbye to frustration over misleading scale numbers and hello to real progress! Ready to take control of your health? Book your MetaScan with Youtrition NZ today!
Hi I’m Alyssa, a Certified MetaScan Practitioner, Clinical Nutritionist and Personal Trainer.
The MetaScan: A Powerful Tool for Tracking Body Composition
The MetaScan is a body composition analysis tool that I use in my practice, with every client. It is an excellent tool for tracking and providing motivation, accountability and raw data to allow any necessary tweaks in diet, exercise or lifestyle.
Beyond the Scale: Why Body Composition Counts
Initially you may think it is about showing you how ‘fat’ you are, or how dehydrated your cells are, but this shows us much more important data.
Systematic dysfunction due to diet, lifestyle, genetics or environment can lead to serious metabolic diseases and disorders such as type 2 diabetes, overweight and obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), cardiovascular disease and more.
Early symptoms of this include bloating, stomach fat, fatigue and lethargy, hormonal imbalances, mood issues, cravings, disrupted sleep, gut dysfunction and immune dysfunction among other frustrations that you may not even be aware are related to improper body composition.
The MetaScan Body Composition scanner is an essential tool along your health journey, looking at changes in adipose tissue (fat) and muscle mass, as well as cellular health, hydration and inflammation. This allows us to ensure that your exercise and nutrition is effective in supporting your health goals.
Whether you are wanting to focus on preventive health and age well or you’re a fitness fiend wanting to look your best in swimwear, a Metascan with me allows you to track progress accurately and safely so you can continue toward both your short-term and your long-term goals.
Why a MetaScan is better than the scales alone
The scales are just one number and one part of your ‘weight’. For instance, the scales may tell you that you have gained 2kg which may lead to your feeling defeated and disappointed and say things like “it’s not working I give up” or “I feel really down, I have gone up in scales this week!” – like many of my clients do when weighing on their own.
A body scan will allow us to see that perhaps the weight is lean muscle mass and better hydration and a loss in adipose tissue (fat), in turn bringing reassurance and satisfaction allowing drive and motivation back towards your goals.
What’s so great about muscle? “I don’t want to get bulky!”
It is actually very difficult to gain muscle, especially for women so do not fear any ‘bulk’, it is likely to make you feel more toned, which is the common goal for most people.
The importance of muscle though, goes beyond aesthetics. Muscle being a metabolism. We can lose 3-5% of our muscle mass every decade starting as early as 30 years old. As we move through life, we want to enjoy hikes with ease or kick a ball around.
But simply being able to run around with kids, getting up and down off of the ground or grabbing a towel from the top cupboard is largely due to your muscle mass and function.
And no, to debunk you, ‘weight’ changes aren’t necessarily a factor of age- lean muscle mass is. We just need to focus on good nutrition and fitness, at any age and stage of life.
Consistently tracking body composition allows us to monitor progress with accuracy. For those focused on muscle growth, the MetaScan reveals increases in lean mass over time. If the aim is fat loss, it provides precise measurements of fat reduction.
Additionally, for individuals experiencing fluid retention—often associated with underlying health conditions—the report detects any changes in fluid levels.
More Than Just Motivation—A Tool for Lifelong Health
This detailed data is incredibly valuable, particularly when the scale doesn’t move but body composition is improving—such as when fat is being replaced with muscle.
It’s always rewarding to see your relief when you can see your efforts finally paying off.
The best part though, is helping your internal body systems click back in sync and help you to feel your version of your best and greatest YOU.
Youtrition NZ, Nutrition that works for you.
Interested in Learning More About the MetaScan?
If you're curious about how the MetaScan can enhance your health journey, don't hesitate to get in touch.
Together, we can monitor your progress in a way that accurately showcases your hard work and achievements!
Contact me here!
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