Easily the most popular health and fitness goal is how to lose weight fast. Now before we go any further let’s make a couple of things clear: Oftentimes people associate losing weight with losing bodyfat and gaining a more aesthetic looking physique. Recognize that losing weight and losing bodyfat are two completely different goals. Sometimes they both occur simultaneously but that is not always the case and it is not always necessary to lose weight to lose bodyfat.

Muscle does not weigh more than fat. This bears repeating: Muscle does not weigh more than fat. It is denser in volume, thus takes up less space than fat. You can find my favorite analogy in any gym. If you look at the big, soft, bouncy stability balls and the smaller, harder medicine balls you can see that they take up more space than the heavier, smaller medicine balls. So if improving body composition aka looking better naked are part of your fitness goals, then just using the number on the scale and nothing else could set you up for failure. (more…)