Even doctors blur the distinction between weighing too much and carrying too much fat. Imagine that you and your identical twin go to the doctor and the doctor tells you both that you need to lose 20 pounds. Your twin decides to concentrate on losing weight as fast as possible by going on one of the popular quick weight loss diets.
You decide on a different approach. You start eating healthier without going on any extreme diet, begin lifting weights, and start running. Your goal is fat loss and improved fitness instead of maximum weight loss.
Six months later, you and your twin go back to the doctor for a follow up visit. Your twin has lost the 20 pounds the doctor wanted them to, but you've only lost a few. Yet the doctor tells your twin that they need to lose 10 more pounds while telling you that you are in great shape and don't have to lose anything. Why the difference?
Fat Loss Not Weight Loss Is What Matters
The doctor gives you and your twin different instructions now because the numbers on the scale aren't the most important thing. Your twin has been on an extreme weight loss diet for six months. They've lost a good bit of body fat. But they've also lost a good amount of muscle. Their body fat percentage (the ratio of fat to lean tissue in their body) hasn't changed that much. And look at them. They look skinny, but they're still kind of flabby. They're also low on energy and don't look so good.
Now look at you. You've only lost a few pounds. But you've added some muscle to your frame and lost a good bit of body fat. Your body fat percentage has improved a lot. Your not flabby anymore. Plus you're full of energy. You're strong and fit. You look better than you have in years.
Your twin lost all the weight the doctor prescribed, and you didn't, but any doctor will be much happier with your results than with your twin's results. That's because your weight, that single number on the scale, isn't what's really important. But that single number on the scale is a whole lot easier to measure and keep track of than your body fat percentage.
Get It Right
You need to get this one right. Concentrating on weight loss instead of fat loss is a big mistake and a big reason why people fail so miserably. Concentrate on eating right, working out, and losing fat instead of your weight. Soon you'll see and feel the results and no one will care about the number you see on the scale.
For years now many believe that they can spot reduce their trouble spots and lose fat only from one part of their body. For years the educated health professionals have been telling these same people that this weight loss tip of spot reducing is a myth and that we can't just pick and choose where we want fat to come off from and when.
You see the body is a mechanism that focuses on survival. The body isn't going to do things that threaten its existence. This means for starters the body doesn't like to get rid of fat to begin with. Fat is a protective compound that the body can rely on for calories when desperately needed. Just like if you live in a hurricane prone area you most likely stockpile essentials to survive on if needed to do so. Fat is the body's essentials. If you don't feed your body or you get lost in a desert your body can turn to the fat stores for energy to keep you alive. Your body is very good at surviving by creating and storing things such as fat for emergency purposes.
Now your objective is to shed the fat because you mind tells you that you will always feed your body and never starve it so you don't need that extra fat hanging around. It now becomes a tug and war between your mind and your body to determine what happens with your extra fat.
Here is your weight loss tip: Your body will give up that extra fat if you follow the proper principles of good nutrition and the right exercise. Your mind and your efforts will have defeated your body's willingness to hold onto that fat. Though your body does have control over where that fat is going to disappear from. Your body tends to shed fat from areas that hold the least amount. Your body also seems for many people to be pre-disposed to hanging on to fat around the mid-section for a longer period of time.
This is why you will see many times you lose fat in your neck, face, legs, etc much faster than from your waist or midsection area. Each person is different in how they lose their extra fat and from where so don't think that if you don't lose fat like this that something is wrong. I have seen dozens of different ways in which fat comes off.
The fat in your face is usually one of the first places to lose fat as I have seen with many of my clients. This brings us back to the exercises to lose facial fat. Regardless of whether or not slapping the bottom part of your chin or smiling repetitively for a length of time works or not the fact remains that if the fat is still there the exercises will do nothing.
These exercises don't burn fat specifically from your face. They don't even burn any significant calories. All they can possibly do and this is debatable, is they might tighten the skin so that you appear thinner in the face. The fat is still there. So to say you can do facial exercises to lose facial fat is a lie, myth or whatever you want to call it. It just simply isn't true.
Another proven weight loss tip: To permanently lose the facial fat you need to burn calories and burn more than what you eat. You accomplish this by following sound nutrition fat loss principles and partake in a fat loss exercise program. Don't fall for the latest weight loss tips or gimmicks that promote miraculous weight loss or spot reduction of fat. You will just be wasting your time and creating frustration and anger.
Instead focus on what works and in a short time you will see fat shedding not only off your face, but from your entire body.
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