There’s a huge misconception, endorsed by many celebrities, that you can eat whatever you can and burn it all by hitting the gym the next day. It’s not something one should follow, especially when trying to burn excess body fat and get fit. Unknown to many, weight loss and fat loss are not the same, and weighing scale does not show amount of fat burnt. That’s why we should not always depend on weighing scale to measure success and look at other non-scale victories like these (18 Non-Scale Victories That Prove you are Losing Weight). The numbers on the weighing scale can get fluctuate with the amount of water retention, salt intake, and the amount of carb intake (for every gram of carb, the body holds three gms of water). Burning calories in the gym would not always translate to burning fat because when we exercise, our bodies will start to burn calories, but the calories that are burnt come from glycogen (glucose molecules) stored in the muscles and liver. If we continuously replenish these glycogen stores (by eating high carb and sugar rich food), instead of the body tapping into stored fat, it will continue to burn glycogen, keeping the fat storage intact. So, what should you do to burn fat and not just calories alone. Read on to find out.
Burning Calories vs Burning Fat:
Every food that we consume have different amount of calories in them, that either get used up to release energy or get stored in the body. Extra carbs are converted to glycogen molecul...