Are You Getting Rid of Fat, or Just Losing Weight?

THE REALITY:
Two people can have the exact same height and weight, but very different percentages of body fat.  One could be in excellent health with a lean and impressive body…yet the other could be in poor health with a soft and flabby body.

THE REALITY: As we age, we tend to gain fat around our organs (“visceral fat”) that can’t be detected by measuring “skin folds” or even with a scale.

THE REALITY: Your bathroom scale can’t tell the whole story either.   Some people may think they are overweight, when the amount of fat they have on their bodies is just fine, while others may carry this hidden fat that the scale won’t tell them about.  Controlling excessive fat is not just a matter of appearance, it’s a huge health factor.

Bad advice is everywhere.  Be on your guard.

Too many diet plans, diet products, magazine articles and books focus solely on dropping pounds.  Our advice:  Forget about this obsession with trying to lower the number on the scale as fast as possible, and focus more on steadily eliminating excess fat from your body.

Your overall body weight is made up of various different components, such as body fat, muscle tissue, water and glycogen. The haphazard approach of simply aiming to “lose weight” is incredibly misguided as it does not take these specific types of body weight into account.

In order to achieve your goal of a lean, energetic and healthy body, focus on getting rid of the excessive amounts of “bad” body weight while maintaining as much “good” body weight as you can. Structure your “weight loss” approach in such a way that you aim to gradually reduce your body fat levels while keeping your lean muscle tissue levels in tact. This is the ONLY realistic way to burn fat, keep it off over the long run, and achieve the kind of lean appearance that you strive for.

Crash dieting is not just temporary…it’s a sure way for your body to store more fat over the long-term

Those who simply place themselves on “crash diets” and attempt to drop large amounts of body weight over short periods of time are inevitably doomed to fail. Such an approach places the body into a starved state and actually programs you to store more fat over the long run. The body will react to severe calorie deficits by slowing down the metabolism in an attempt to conserve energy, wasting away lean muscle mass, and increasing the production of hormones that inhibit fat loss.  The end result is an unhealthy, out of shape body that, while being temporarily “lighter” than it was before, has now been programmed to store fat and will inevitably end up returning back to its original weight and more.