Have you ever been on an extreme diet where you lose weight rather quickly at first, but over time it become harder to lose weight and it become very difficult to stick with your diet because the hunger pangs intensify?
Many popular weight-loss diets call for very low calories: 800 to 1,200 per day or less for women and 1,500 to 1,800 per day or less for men.
In our previous article, we 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 us 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.