Fat Loss 4 Idiots Opinion

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Attempting to Lose Fat Quick? Is It Smart

By Wayne Powers

Staying power is a quality that individuals who are attempting to shed weight seem to need to work on. The fat can by no means be lost quick enough to make most people happy. The implication from mainstream media is that losing weight can be actually be done speedily. Weight loss shows on TV make fast weight loss look easy, it appears like it can be a breeze and is long term. This mindset promoted by the media is a tad bit off-center from what happens in actuality.

Fast weight loss looks like the ultimate objective of anybody who is heavy and needs to lose pounds, what is that the right approach? The reality is that it isn't the greatest manner to manage weight loss. Is important to think about the different types of tissue that is lost when you diet, muscle and fat. You will want to lose more fat. Lose weight over a period of time and you will be successful. That is how the game of weight loss should be strategized.

Stable weight loss should be the goal of anyone trying to lose weight. Trying to realize short term weight loss too fast will encumber your weight loss stability later on in your life once you're not able to exercise as hard or regulate your diet as well. It is recommended that you should lose no more than two pounds a week. Pass beyond two pounds per week, and you drop muscle mass and the percentage of fat in your body increases. Muscle is metabolically active tissue and burns energy. Adipose tissue is not as energy demanding and does not increase your metabolism. Consider for a second that it took a period of years to gain the fat that you now have. Pounds of fat just doesn't accumulate in your body overnight and it won't leave overnight. Take it slow.

There are indeed exceptions to the hard and fast rule of 2 pounds of weekly weight loss. The exceptions turn up for the morbidly obese over 300 pounds. At that weight, weekly weight loss can be carried on at a percentage basis. Is important that the percentage of weight loss does not go above 1% in any particular week.

Where the real blubber, I mean the rubber, hits the road is and how much fat tissue is lost during the process. It is also recommend that a physician oversees the process. There needs to be any increase in lean body mass ratio as you lose weight.

It is clear that it is important for you when dieting and exercising to lose weight, that you grasp the concept of "weight loss" versus "fat loss". If you want to just lose weight, you could dehydrate yourself and lose 10 pounds of weight, but you'd be causing more problems than it is worth. If you go is to "lose fat", then you want to maintain your muscle mass while losing weight slowly.

If you carry on with an excessive weight loss every week and you are losing more and more lean muscle tissue, once you stop dieting and exercising the ratio of fat tissue will be higher than when you started. Therefore what would you will have is a slowing down of your metabolism, and you're setting yourself up for a future gain in weight. At the point that you have lost the weight, you are almost like a "skinny fat person". Yeah of course you've lost weight but not the right kind of weight.

How do I know if I'm losing fat as opposed to muscle?

Nowadays, there are a number of home tasting kits that can test body fat ratio. You can either go to your medical supplies store locally or just search online. One of those is the Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis scale, but the best tool that you can utilize is what is known as body fat calipers. We won't go into the calculation of how you determine body fat ratio using calipers measurements, but what you do is pinch a loose section of your skin on your several areas of your body and determine the thickness in millimeters. From this you will get the most and most accurate understanding for body fat percentage. The calculation that you use will account for height and weight and sex. Websites that accomplish the calculations for you can be found quite easily on Google. Just insert the figures and you'll get back your fat ratio percentage.

Overall just think about the manner that you gained weight over the years. You didn't gain it overnight, it was a process of over the years at the fat cells accumulated in your body and grew larger. Lose weight but don't over do it by going too fast, have fun, and become healthier! - 17269

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