Fat Loss vs Weight Loss

Weight loss! What is that? Lose a few kgs through limiting food? Lose lots of kgs through starvation? Excercising till you drop? Eating watermelons for dinner and a zuchinni for breakfast and totally skipping lunch and evening tea?

Well, all the above will result in weight loss. But, is it actually thei WEIGHT that u WANT to lose?

What I mean here is, mostly people are concerned in losing weight, no matter what. Going on a starvation diet will result in weight loss, but mostly (almost entirely), the thing that goes away is muscle and water... and not FAT!

Some may say, "So what? I'm losing weight rite? So what's the big deal?"

Ok, it's a BIG BIG BIG deal actually.

Let me try to explain in more detail.

When you go on a starvation diet (limiting food, or any other imbalanced method), your body will sound a silent alarm. This alarm will tell the body to BE CAREFUL, because it sees that the owner (YOU!) is probably in a state of famine! So what it does is it tells itself to use up the most active tissues first so that energy can be preserved until the last minute. So, muscle is burnt first! And so does water... water isn't actually burnt, but it gets used along the burning process I guess :P

Anyway, when muscles start to burn, the body is at the same time:

1) LOWERING ITS METABOLISM
- This is to make the whole energy burning process happen a whole lot slower, so that you won't die to soon... (Remember! The body is thinking that you are facing FAMINE!!!).

2) HESITATES TO BURN FAT
- The body burns active tissue first, because it's the most easy to burn. Plus, fat has more energy per gram of fat, this it is SAVED to the last moment... until the last breath of the supposedly dying body owner :(

Another danger when muscle is burnt is that... the heart can start burning as well :(

Yes... because the heart is a msucle remember? So, when that happens, it won't reflect well on the body owner :P When most of the heart gets burnt, there nothing to pump blood with. With no blood circulating... death is imminent.

SO!

When refering to weight loss... always use the FAT LOSS approach. :)
NEVER! I mean NEVER limit the food you eat. Just control the portions, frequency and also the type of food taken.

What I mean by this is, eat in small portions, 5 to 6 times per day, and also abstain from fried, oily, buttered and all the other FAT GENERATING WAYS of cooking food. Boiling is the most basic (and most tasteless :P), pan frying with a little bit of olive oil is great, steaming, and a whole lot more ways are available. Just go out and look for them :)

Some may ask.... (and some have already asked...LOL!) ... "Who does this guy think he is? Talking about fat loss and stuff..."

Well, I'm just somebody whose been there and done that.

I started out at 83kgs before I started the 5-6 meal per day routine... plus I also added some excercise (which would accelerate the fat loss process by leaps and bounds).
At my best, I weighed in at 68kgs. But after that, I fell prey to INDISCIPLINE! :( Which has haunted me for most of my life. Now I'm back in the 75s. Maybe shot up to 78!

Darn... indiscipline can be a bummer :(

Anywayz, back to our main topic... if you wanna lose weight, make sure you concentrate on methods to lose fat. Not only will the results be almost PERMANENT! It's also gonna be alot healthier in the long run.

Starvation diets... yeah they work... in losing weight :P And in making you have less muscle. It also has the main disadvantage of being EXTREMELY TEMPORARY.

Just imagine, you could never sustain a lifetime of food deprivation :( So, when you go back to the normal eating habits... you guessed it, ... most people who do gain back the weight they lost... many gain even more!!! :(

Anywayz, just a thought and something I'd like to share.
Will start my personal website on fat loss when the fasting season ends. So wish me luck all :)

-just something to write-
-Like someone once said, TALK IS CHEAP! So I gotta put all these to action... AGAIN!!!!-