Losing weight is easy – you could donate a pint of blood that will lose you half a kilo (a pound) or so. You could not drink for some time, your weight will reduce for sure (not normally recommended).
Reducing body fat is not so simple.
Overweight is usually just a (currently) more polite way of saying fat, or more likely obese. In most cases when people talk about weight they are really talking about body fat.
Weight is very important for weight categorised sports like boxing, for most of us though, the issue is fat not weight.
I’ll try to use the term fat rather than weight, unless I’m talking about the weight of fat some of us are carting around all day.
I dont care about my weight, what I care about is the excess lard I’m carrying. I want to reduce my body fat content. I think it is important to face up to this fact and use the right terminology so as to keep on target.
If you consider yourself ‘overweight’ (or ‘vertically challenged’!) and the terms ‘excess body fat’, ‘fat’ and ‘obese’ offend you then I’m sorry for that. I have no idea whether that attitude will help or hinder any attempts you make at ‘weight management’ (body composition management). Leave a comment and let us know.
I completely agree with you. Once I started to realize that I was carting around extra fat I was completely disgusted. Especially when I started to work at a health clinic and saw what a 5lbs blob of fat looks like, gross!