Lose weight or Lose Fat

Anyone who has followed a low calorie diet knows that at the beginning you lose Weight fast, then it will always harder to lose weight, until, after some        Weeks or months, often weight loss stops.

In this article we will understand the difference between lose weight,
Or lose body fat, and simply lose weight, without distinction regarding what is the Origin of the weight loss.

Our body weight consists of:

• Bones;

• Internal Organs (heart, liver, spleen, etc.);

• Muscles;

• Water;

• Fat;

• Muscle glycogen;

• Contents of the stomach and intestines.

Bone mass and that of organs, in normal health, do not change quickly. So, short term weight change varies. Depending on the body fluids, glycogen muscle, the contents of the intestine, muscle and body fat.

If our desire is to lose weight, then we lose weight only by loss of fat,
However, we cannot prevent the other parameter variations and so it is important to understand how they vary and function, this way we can know how to properly assess the data provided by the balance.

Muscle glycogen

It represents the reserve of carbohydrates inside our organism: muscles contain About 500 g and 80 g in the liver. Each gram of glycogen binds about 3 ml water and then if we consume all the muscle and liver glycogen (for example, physical activity or a very prolonged low-carbohydrate diet) we achieve weight loss, but will be recovered at the end of the food restriction period.

• The body fluids

Many methods that rely on those who want to lose weight are based on fluid loss rather than lose fat.

Extra cellular fluid Level (those outside the cells)  depends on the amount of sodium in our body, which depends on how much sodium we assume. If we are accustomed to eating salty foods bodily fluids are always close
to the maximum, removing the salt in our body in a few days the weight loss would fictitiously exceed 5 lbs, which are readily incorporated after a salty meal. Many mma fighters use this method to make weight.

• Muscles

The muscles are cannibalized by the body if the diet is very restrictive and is
not supported by adequate physical activity. The loss of muscle is
hand in hand with that of fat, so it can distort the results achieved with a diet.

If the diet is correct, associated with physical activity can gain muscle
and lose fat, especially if the subject was sedentary.

A bad diet that gives a quick weight loss to a sedentary certainly is
cannibalizing a good part of the muscles. At the end of the diet, weight loss is
paid in the form of muscle loss with a lower metabolism. However, the sedentary slimming faster than an athlete, may give the impression that his method is better for weight loss when it is actually much worse!

The intestinal contents

If you eat 2.5 lbs of food, gain weight exactly 2.5 lbs. Trivial, but not all
agree to this when climbing on the scale. The same applies after an abundant
meal: the wastes are not eliminated immediately, therefore the weight that we gain the day after is not real, to understand what consequences of the food we ate we must weigh two days later. For the same reason, you should weigh yourself at fixed hours, preferably in the morning    when conditions are more standardized.

• Fat

We finally reach the weight loss that we are interested in to lose weight, that is to lose body fat.

Eat fewer calories, 2.5 lbs of fat contains 9000 kcal. However, adipose tissue has water as well: if  we take the fat fresh pork, for example, when cooked it loses volume and weight, because it also contains water and by now it will not have 9000 kcal, but about 6500. Therefore When thinner, we lose not only fat but also the water tied to it.

But this is not the only variable: when the body is subject to a caloric restriction, metabolism decreases, but when fat, metabolism increases.

For simplicity, suppose that the two phenomena compensate each other, thus we should eat 9000 calories less to lose 2.5 lbs.

To understand, we’re talking about a couple of Christmas dinner compounds.Appetizers, first batch of food, second encore, lots of desserts, wine,    coffee
etc.

So, you can be heavier 2.5 lbs per day, but you concatenate party after
another!    This means that in normal condition weight  gain is slow,

However if you consider adding 100 calories more to the amount you usually have, in a  Year you will be 10 lbs heavier and in 5 years 50 lbs more!

The same applies to weight loss; we just reverse the process and of course eat
the right food at the right time.