Monday Fitness Fun Fact
The difference between plain-old weight loss and losing fat
If you’re overweight, you need to lose fat, not just overall weight. Losing fat will of course produce weight loss but you want to maintain or increase the amount of lean muscle tissue under the fat while your weight decreases. So even if you lose weight but don't maintain or increase muscle tissue, you’re body shape will stay the same, you’ll just be a smaller version of that shape! You can be an unhealthy fat man and weigh 200 pounds or you can be a healthy, lean man and weigh the same 200 pounds. You need to change your body composition.
Getting healthy isn’t so much about weight loss as it is ‘Body Recomposition.’ Body recomposition means altering your ratio of fat tissue to lean tissue. A low fat / low calorie diet will cause you to lose fat AND muscle in the ratio of about 50:50 if you’re lucky. So while your weight is decreasing, your precious lean muscle tissue is being eaten away too.
How do you get rid of the fat, increase your muscle and still lose weight? Two words and you already know what they are: Nutrition and Exercise!
Excepted from Musclehack.com
