Reduced calories?

Question

When you reduce your calories significantly and lose weight-is that fat or water weight? Is there a way to tell?

Answer 1

When you reduce your calorie intake, you lose fat.

When people lose "water weight", it is only a temporary weight loss due to dehydration. Laxatives, diuretics, vomiting, and other extreme forms of dieting can reduce water weight. You will gain that weight back within a day or so, unless you work hard to keep yourself dehydrated.

Losing water weight is a dangerous quick fix, used often by boxers and horseracing jockeys to "make weight": They dehydrate themselves to meet weight requirements, then when they re-hydrate (drink a lot of liquid), they get heavy again.

Other athletes and dancers do the same thing. But if you are trying to lose weight for health and cosmetic reasons, losing water weight is not a good idea. Deliberately losing water weight will destroy your health, and it doesn't last very long anyway.

The best way to tell the difference is to track your weight over time. You may notice that you gain a pound or two one day, then lose it, then gain it back. This is water weight (and the weight of the food you consume and the various forms it takes on the way out of your body).

Keep track of your weight over the long-term -- over weeks and months. Weight that stays off for weeks and months is fat loss, not water loss.

Answer 2

You lose water only by perspiration, sweating and urination. When you lose calories the body burns first the sugar, then carbohydrates and then fats. All the excessive carbohydrates are also deposited in the form of fats.

Dieting and exercise are a best way to lose body fats. But you should prefer aerobic exercises instead of abdominal crunches or sit ups because hitting a particular area does not guarantee that you will only lose fat there. When you start losing fat, the process involves your entire body.

Lastly, if you immediately weigh yourself after exercise, there may be some effect of losing water due to sweating. To know that you've lost fats, better weigh yourself before exercise.

Answer 3

If you reduce your calories too low, you will lose muscle mass. Usually when you first cut calories, you will lose water. As you continue to lose, however, it will be fat. Unless, as I said in my first sentence, you make the calorie cut too drastic.

Answer 4

both, when you lost inches that usually fat,just losing weight is just probably water weight

Answer 5

it aspects help to burn (yet no longer cut back) extra energy , helping you to cut back bodyweight in case you do no longer consume extra, i.e. take in extra energy. do no longer consume too many carbs interior the night, you pick interior the morning and by using the day.