Many people want to lose fat, but many also fail in their fat loss efforts. They followed a diet program and lost weight in the beginning, but then ended up gaining their weight back. They fail to lose fat permanently.
In a 1959 study of 100 obese individuals, Albert Stunkard and Mavis McLaren-Hume found that after 2 years of treatment, only 2 percent maintained a weight loss of 20 pounds or more.
In my previous article, I said that if you have body fat problem, your main focus should be to lose fat, not weight. But how do you lose fat? This article will discuss the fundamentals of fat loss in an overview manner so that you can see the bigger picture of fat loss.
Did you know that you can be both skinny and fat at the same time?
This might be counter-intuitive, but it’s true. A client of mine weighed 55.5 kg (around 121 pounds) but had a 33.8 percent body fat. She was in her late 30s. If we use the American College of Sports Medicine (ASCM) body fat guidelines, her body fat was below average even if she was slim.