Should I Stop Eating Fat?

[that_guy]

hi
I'm interested in shredding some fat. I am going to start doing some light exercise to begin with. As for my diet, if I stop eating fat, will I lose weight quicker?

[gymBum]

Originally Posted by that_guy

hi
I'm interested in shredding some fat. I am going to start doing some light exercise to begin with. As for my diet, if I stop eating fat, will I lose weight quicker?

Absolutely not! A well balanced diet is important to maintain. Many people get the wrong idea about "fat" - there is a lot of very healthy fat that you should be consuming.

If you want to lose weight faster, you should be eating healthy and regularly and not cutting anything like fat entirely out of your diet.

[w0cyru01]

Healthy fats are good for you.

Start here on diet advice
http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/...on/7habits.htm

[hefty_body]

It's a silly conception that if you eat fat it automatically goes to your waist. Things like trans-fats and the like are not bad for you because they make you heavier, they are bad because they cause fat buildup in your blood stream and such. To shred the pounds you gotta work the muscles. Once fat starts to go it should start to fade pretty steadily. Do not confuse fat loss with weight loss. You could loose all the fat on your body and weigh the same or even more depending on how much muscle you mass.

Not to say that fat and muscle weight different. 1pound is a 1 pound, simply that muscle is more dense (nearly 5 times) so it takes up less space. So I like to say measure your success on whether your pants fit, rather than what the scale reads.