The Real Deal About Weight Loss and Fat Loss

We hear about weight loss and we also come across fat loss. Fitness clubs and dieticians use these phrases maybe to attract customers. They can even use those words interchangeably. But in reality, they are different, as the technical definitions of those words are also different. For better understanding, we compare both terms in simple ideas.

As we all know, according to Newton's law of gravity, weight is the amount of Earth's gravitational pull on one matter with a certain mass. When you step on the weighing scale, the machine reads your weight, how heavy you are, not the fats inside you. You can visualize that, right? Having described what weight is, we then turn to fats. Whenever you buy pork or beef, you see fats surrounding the meat. Fats serve as coats or sponges that protect our muscles while we are in motion. Since fat is our "coat", it also helps us keep warm in low temperature. Muscles alone cannot survive the cold without fats. But what if we accumulate too much fat in our body? It affects our weight, all right, but too much fat keeps our muscles from functioning properly, thus, the limited movement and the increase in body size. That's why we go on dieting and exercise to shed pounds of excess mass, that抯 inactive muscle and fat combined.

So, the next time you will hear people and fitness experts say weight loss, you know that, in the back of your mind, what they truly mean is fat loss. But, beyond word conventions, bear in mind that you need to keep your body balanced. When you lose fat, you have to build muscle (not the macho man type) in order to be fit.

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