What’s really behind weight loss??

When you’re thinking of losing weight, your first thought is you’ll be losing fat, but only if it were that easy. I’m hoping you’re coming to realization that all weight loss isn’t fat loss. This is very important. When you start to get more control of your health and fitness, the first thing most think to do is reduce calories and start moving more. When you reduce calories our bodies don’t exclusively turn to burning excess fat for fuel. So the focus is really to dial in on body fat reduction, maintaining lean muscle, not necessarily “ I need to lose this much (insert your desired number) weight”

if the case were for the body to only burn fat, your belly fat would be the first to go. When you begin to diet and reduce calories the body can burn fat, but it can and will burn lean muscle as well if restricting calories for a long period of time. This is how crash dieting backfires and plays a trick on your body and raises havoc on your metabolism. Notice when you or an individual that has a completed a diet that involved calorie restriction regained the weight back and then some?? This was due to the individual’s weight loss coming more from lean muscle than body fat, and slowing their metabolic rate. You should be cautious of any fad diet that involves extreme weight loss or overnight results.

Action steps⬇️⬇️⬇️

✅take starting progress pictures

✅ get current BMR or resting metabolism

✅ re-assess every 2 weeks

✅ the scale isn’t the best way to gauge success or training program progress.