Saying No To Quick Weight Loss?

Everywhere you look, you read and hear promises of quick weight loss and you even see people losing weight quickly- and having that desire is not wrong – it’s simply human nature.


However, you must become aware of some serious problems that can occur if you try to force it and lose weight too quickly. The faster you lose weight, the more muscle you will lose with the fat, and that can really mess up your metabolism. An even bigger problem with fast weight loss is that the fat loss just won’t last. The faster you lose, the more likely you are to gain it back.


Think about it: We don’t have a weight loss problem today, we have a “keeping the weight off” problem.


Weight loss will be the healthiest, safest and most likely to be permanent if you set your goal for about two pounds (0.9Kg) per week (and even if you lose only a single pound each week (0.5Kg), that is healthy progress).


What really matters is not how much weight you lose, but how much FAT you lose. Where did your weight loss come from? Did you lose body fat or lean body mass?



"Weight" is not the same as "fat." Weight includes muscle, bone, internal organs as well as lots and lots of water. What you really want is fat loss, not weight loss. When you lose weight quickly, what you lose is water weight and lean muscle.



One thing you should know is that water weight losses sometimes distort the numbers on the scales, especially when you first begin a new nutrition and training program. It’s very common to lose 1.4Kg - 2.3Kg in the first week on nearly any diet and exercise program and often even more on low carb diets. Just remember, its NOT all fat - WATER LOSS IS NOT FAT LOSS!



The best advice I can give you is to focus on losing fat, not losing weight. If you lose 1.4 Kg to 2.3 Kg per week, and you know it’s all fat, and not lean tissue, then you have done excellently well now and for the future.



Lack of patience is one of the biggest mistakes people make when it comes to losing body fat. If you want to lose FAT, not muscle and you want to keep the fat off for good, then you have to take off the kilograms slowly.


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