When many engage in a rigorous weight loss campaign, they assume a correlation between body weight reduction (as indicated by the bathroom scale) and appearance improvements. This is true if weight loss is in the form of fat, as you will quickly enhance all aspects of physical appearance, yet most do not differentiate between fat (which is undesirable), and muscle (which is an important ally in the battle for quick, permanent fat reduction and appearance improvements). In fact, since muscle burns stored energy (fat), muscle loss reduces the chance for quick, permanent body fat reduction!

Although huge bodybuilders are prime examples of individuals who can consume thousands of calories each day while maintaining very low body fat levels, you need not build bulky muscles in order to derive the associated benefits, as small quantities of additional muscle (like those of athletic male and female models) enhance the rate of fat burn (through increased energy consumption) and ensure the permanency of results (by maintaining increased energy needs). If you follow radical, ineffective diet routines that encourage muscle loss, you immediately reduce the body's need for stored calories (since muscle is the body's energy "furnace"), and thus shut down the fat burning process. Therefore, never gauge the scale to determine a "proper" weight for your body type, as the mirror can only reflect whether weight loss is a positive (fat burning) or negative (muscle loss) experience.

In addition to reducing the speed of fat reduction, muscle loss produces a flat, unattractive appearance, so always remember that the only type of weight loss that is beneficial involves reducing stored body fat, and any other type of weight reduction is simply counterproductive to developing physical improvements.

In summary, the true weight loss goal is to eliminate excess fat as opposed to muscle! Remember, weight (fat) loss results from proper implementation of diet and exercise methods, while most of the popular rapid weight loss strategies simply lead to sharp reductions in muscle, which is contrary to your physical enhancement goal, and can ruin your metabolism.

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