Do you weigh yourself every day and every day you disappoint yourself with the result? Quiet, your weight can suffer multiple variations throughout the day. Even if you are losing weight, the result may be seen earlier in your body than on the scale. "The scale never reflects what we really are," says César Bustos, director of Pronaf, experts in nutrition and physical activity programs. According to this specialist, "we can see people with the same weight and be totally opposed in the physical aspect and the state of health". "If we really want to worry about something, we should do it for excess fat, compared to our percentage of muscle mass and not weight," he says.
And is that most people talk about losing weight without taking into account the loss of fat. And weight is such a variable factor that it can lead you directly to confusion and frustration. "We use the terms lose weight and lose fat interchangeably, but they are very different things," says the KilosOut team. By itself, you can make an extreme diet that makes you lose weight quickly but not fat, and then win again twice as much.
Weight or fat?
Your weight is made up of water, fat, muscle, bones, organs ... and when we need to lose weight it must be mostly fat. Losing muscle or even bone density puts our health at risk. Hence the importance of avoiding miracle diets or magic solutions. "If you want to lose weight and maintain it, you have to change your life and the approach you have regarding food," they underline from KilosOut.
"An overweight person needs to lose that excess weight, where a large part is due to accumulated fat but there is also a liquid retention and a general mismatch in parallel", point out from KilosOut. "Normally, when a balanced diet starts low in calories and we forget sedentary lifestyle, our body gets a negative energy balance, causing our weight / fat to go down."
As the KilosOut experts explain, our body composition gives us information about the fat composition of our body. "The non-fat part of the body is called lean mass and includes muscle, water, bones and organs. The more lean we have, the more metabolic we will have at rest since it is the part of our body that burns calories throughout the day so that our organism works correctly. " Knowing body composition will help us design a good sports and nutrition plan based on the need to lose fat, build muscle, or both.
But be careful with the miracle diets since, as Bustos explains, "in the loss of weight the first thing that occurs is a loss of liquids, hence it seems that they produce a quick result, but what is really happening is that we we are deflating. "" But it is obvious that if we only lose fluid, it will return to us as soon as we rehydrate or return to the previous habit, which is what has led us to excess fat and weight. The worst of these methods? As this expert emphasizes, that "they make the body more resistant and each time it will cost us more to lose and less to scold".
