Two Interpretations of Weight Loss: Which One would you go for?

Two interpretations of weight loss are One, when weight loss means losing muscles, bones, water, body fat, organs. Two, when weight loss means fat loss, and nothing else.

Of course, second interpretation is the best—you lose unwanted body fat, and become functional and fit in daily life.

Achieve Excellent Fat Loss

And how you can achieve this excellent fat loss? Of course, with regular workouts, proper nutrition and adequate rest.

Regular workouts: Intensive and high intensity strength training is best. Choose your workouts—poundage, reps, sets, high volume, high speed, intensity—that would really help you achieve great results and not just wasting time in a gym/workout facility.

Full body exercises like barbell squat, barbell front squat, barbell bench press, dynamic lunges, barbell deadlift, barbell push press… all these are most beneficial in fat loss and strengthening & conditioning your muscles.

Proper nutrition: What you need to do is cut down on “carbohydrates”; and include more essential fats (you need to derive most of your energy from it) and high protein in your daily meals. Why high protein? It is to obstruct catabolism (muscle loss) so that your muscles can recover. Now you can imagine what would happen if catabolism and fat loss happen at the same time! You will feel fatigue, tiredness, low metabolism, and low immunity all the time.

A low- to very low-carb diet, where carb intake is minimum, protein is moderate and dietary fat is maximum. If you are ‘carb-addicted’ or ‘carb dependent’, you can start with “carb cycling”, meaning, gradually decreasing your carb intake one week at a time.

“Fat” would include clarified butter (ghee), butter, cold-pressed coconut oil, cold-pressed olive oil, walnuts, flaxseeds, almonds. These are grouped under “excellent dietary fat”.

“Protein” would include fish, eggs, cottage cheese, yogurt, cheese, mutton, bacon, salami, chicken breast, etc.

“Carbs” would include broccoli, spinach, other green vegetables, mushrooms, cabbage, strawberries and cranberries, blackberries.

Rest: You need to get a sound sleep for 7 hours on a daily basis. Don’t keep yourself up forcefully because you cannot get rid of mobile addiction. 

Conclusion

What would you then prefer? Interpretation one or interpretation two? Think and choose wisely; you will stand to gain excellent fitness.

ALWAYS REMEMBER: If you are high on fat, you should be low on carbs. Vice versa, if you are high on carbs, you should be low on fat.