Is It Better To Track Fat Loss Or Weight Loss?

How Can Differences In Tracking Change Weight Loss?

The majority of people tracking weight loss hyper fixate on the number on the scales, but a lot of the time people confuse weight loss for fat loss. When your goal is to lose weight your likely going to be increasing your exercise and changing your diet, which is not only going to track your fat loss but also any muscle gain or loss.

So, what is the best way to accurately track a weight loss journey?

What is Weight Loss?

Weight loss is tracking loss of your overall body mass. This includes fat, muscle, water, protein and any stored carbs.

Tracking just your weight loss can be beneficial in convenience. Easily accessible through any at home or gym scale, providing you a quick insight to your progress in a straightforward way. This can provide simple and quick motivation which is easy to track from anywhere.

What is Fat Loss?

Tracking fat loss only tracks your weight loss that is fat. Cancelling out any weight you may of gained or lost through muscle mass, water weight or any other kind of weight your body mass carries.

Tracking fat loss gives you a more accurate insight into your weight loss journey and health. Having a understanding about your body composition will help you within your exercise journey to identify how to maintain muscle mass while losing fat, benefiting your health, energy levels and overall fitness. When focusing on a long term and sustainable weight loss, tracking your fat loss will give you a more solid track to success, focusing on bringing down your body fat percentage while increasing your muscle mass. If you were to try do this only tracking yourself with scales, it would seem like your weight is fluctuating and increasing, when really your body and fitness is increasing and becoming more healthy.

Fat Loss or Weight Loss?

At FitFarms we focus on fat loss and teach in our workshops the benefits that come from different methods and ways of tracking progress. Fat loss gives you an accurate representation of not only your weight loss, but your health, fitness levels and a real perception of your progress. The greater insight it provides to your own body offers a much better structure for sustainability. Alongside preventing unhealthy hyper fixation on the ‘number on the scale’ through weight loss, giving you a unhealthy perception of your bodies health and progress.