How do you know if you are really losing fat?

A widespread popular belief is that the best gauge of progress in a healthy lifestyle is the number on the scale; that is, the weight. However, this is not a reliable meter that determines whether or not you are meeting your goals.

You can gain weight simply because you are retaining fluid, or lose weight because you lost a significant amount of water or muscle, and this is not a goal anyone wants to achieve, nor is it true progress.

Just because your weight on the scale is lower does not necessarily mean that you have lost fat (in some cases it does, but not in all).

Losing fat is a consequence of a lifestyle and a set of habits that are practiced daily. Nothing well done happens in record time.

A healthy body is not the one that has the least weight, but rather one that has a good percentage of muscle mass and little/moderate fat, and that is not achieved overnight with juices, pills or magic recipes, but with exercise. and conscious eating.

Therefore, do not seek to lose weight, but fat. As? Build muscle by lifting weights, do cardio (HIIT and LISS), eat strategically, control portions, do not have an excessively restrictive diet (these diets promote the loss of muscle mass and when you finish them the rebound effect occurs) and do not believe that a juice or a pill will help you oxidize fat and preserve muscle, without making any type of physical effort.

So how to measure your progress effectively?

A reliable progress meter is the anthropometric measurement performed by a nutritionist with exact numbers.

However, you can also do it from mechanisms such as: photos in which you compare your body before and after.

Or you can take measurements of your waist, hips and neck and compare it as you go through your process, to know if you are really where you want to be (for me this is one of the most reliable methods).

But, don't be guided ONLY by the scale, you could be fooling yourself without knowing it.

There is no "ideal or desired weight", but rather an ideal fat and muscle mass percentage.