The Difference Between Weight Loss And Fat Loss

Are you ready to lose weight or do you want to lose fat? For many people both of these terms means the same thing and they don’t see a difference between weight loss and fat loss. Many people believe that once they begin exercising they will automatically lose fat. This is not true at all; weight loss and fat loss are very different things. In general, people who talk about weight loss really start from a place that is unknown to them. They may know how much they weigh, but they don’t know their lean body mass (how much muscle they actually carry) and they don’t know their body fat percentage (what percentage of their weight is fat).

This causes people to go off the number on a scale and say things like “Well… I just need to lose weight. I’m 200 pounds, so I want to get down to 150. So I just have to lose 50 pounds.” What many people do (especially women), is loads of cardio, they start a new diet and severely cut down calories.

To lose weight, women will eat anywhere from 1000 to 2000 calories, and many women consider 2000 calories being way too much for them to eat. So they’ll cut out a food group entirely, or somehow they’re just trying things. Because all they want is just to lose weight, no matter whether it’s fat, no matter whether it’s muscle.

If You Want To Lose Fat…

If you ask many people “Do you want to lose fat or do you want to lose weight?” they’ll say “Well, isn’t that the same thing? Of course i want to lose fat”. Even if you ask them if they want to lose muscle or fat they will always say they want to lose the fat from their body.

So what happens is that they’ll end up maybe losing weight, and they’ll maybe get down to the goal weight, get close to it, and they look smaller, but their body doesn’t look better or different. They will end up looking more skinny fat, which is still having a high percentage of body fat and low muscle. The reason for this is that they are focused on losing weight and not losing fat.

…Do Heavy Resistance Training

If you want to be smaller than what you are now or just be in a better shape, to be healthier, reduce extra fat and look tone, you need to do some heavy resistance training in your weight loss journey. You need to do more than just cardio, since cardio burns fat, you need to build muscle and increase your muscle size.

Toned is revealing the muscle under your skin. So the less fat and the less water you have between your skin and your muscle, the more the muscle is going show up. In addition, some fast ways to create heavy resistance are calisthenics, heavyweight training or using resistance bands.

…And Eat Enough Calories

Pay attention to your diet, there are many times when women cut out a big food group or decrease their calorie intake drastically, so they can’t lose fat. You could be eating as such a low calorie amount and doing so much cardio that you’re actually wasting away muscle. You’re eating away your muscle through that because you’re not feeding the muscle, you’re not giving the muscle anything to build itself on.

You need to change your phrasing from ” I want to lose weight” to ” I want to lose fat”, dont just go off of what your scale number is telling you. You need to understand that the scale number isnt as important as your body fat percentage.

So when you’re starting a weight loss journey, think about how can you improve your muscle and lose fat. You’ve got to add resistance training, cut back on cardio and eat a balanced macro diet (your fat, your carbs and your protein are balanced).

I hope you know now what the difference is between weight loss and fat loss, and I also hope that this article helped you to interchange the word weight with fat in the statement “I want to lose weight!”. After all, losing fat is what it’s going to give you the nice toned body that you want. Stay fit!