you don't want to lose weight

 what has been said about weight loss vs. fat loss


Lose Fat, Not Weight.

It isn't weight most men want to lose, but bodyfat. What's the difference you ask? The difference is that managing your calories and exercising for weight loss is not the same thing as managing your calories and exercising for fat loss.

Go into it with the idea that all you want to do is lose weight and it's entirely possible to start off at 30% bodyfat, lose 20 pounds and still end up with your 30% bodyfat. What's more, you won't have developed the nutritional skills to keep the fat from accumulating.

  Most "rebounds" in weight are due to exactly that: people concentrating on losing weight, not bodyfat. Losing bodyfat is a lot more challenging and the folks who succeed at it tend to stick with it, whereas the folks who just cared about losing weight, usually end up putting the weight back on.

Working to lose bodyfat may not leave you looking like a bodybuilder, but it's a far healthier objective than blindly setting out to lose weight, only to discover that all you did was burn off what little muscle you had.

My advice is to grasp the difference and develop a nutrition and exercise plan that will eliminate bodyfat without sacrificing all your muscle.


take this two fellows.

• both are five foot eleven inches and both weigh 220 in these photos