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Stepping on the scale is an inaccurate way of indicating body fat loss. It's an obsolete form of measuring the amount of subcutaneous fat, just like fitness doesn't indicate health. You can be fit, but still have metabolic syndrome.
Now if you're trying to get lighter so you can run a marathon without killing your knees, I can understand, but the scale is misleading when it comes to body fat loss. Exercise is good if you want to get fit and prep for the unexpected, but it isn't the answer to losing body fat. If you want to lose skin-fat (that's what I call it), then you must understand how that fat gets there in the first place.
This little thing called insulin, it's a little boat that gets called every time you eat carbs and it floats its happy-butt containing glucose to adipose cells to be stored as fat. If you don't eat food that calls upon this boat, you won't gain fat, at least not as fast as you're trying to lose it.
Most people who kill themselves in the gym only to gain the same (or more) amount of fat back and wonder why they're on a plateau. It's because they're gaining the fat quicker than they can burn it. And when they do exercise, they're burning glucose the first 30-45 minutes anyways. They haven't even tapped into the fat yet because they have so much glucose/glycogen present.
Biological metabolism order of operations will always be burning glycogen before fat if your diet consists of mostly carbs, and you can have up to 500 grams of glycogen in your body at any given time, so if you have too much glycogen because you're always eating glycogen generating foods, then you'll know why you're plateauing. You ain't even touching the fat. You're basically defeating your own purpose.
Now, there's a way to force your body to burning fat 24/7, not just when you exercise. Look into the LCHF diet. Your body has almost no glycogen storage to look for so it has to convert its metabolism to burning fat for ketones, an alternative form of energy. Losing body fat has little to do with calories and everything to do with triggering hormones.
Hormones make you fat, not just calories. The calories that adds fat to your skin are carbs. The calories that adds fat to your blood stream and organs (known as visceral fat) is fructose. Once you understand how human biochemistry works and experience the change for yourself, you'll never listen to another mainstream fallacious advice again. Take it from me, I'm a veteran at this weight loss game. Been there, done that, didn't work. I finally found something that did and I'm sticking with it.
View Diet Calendar, 01 February 2016:
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1161 kcal
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Fat: 101.68g | Prot: 54.76g | Carbs: 6.44g.
Breakfast: Fiorucci Prosciutto Panino, Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter, Coffee (Instant Powder). more...
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