Losing weight is not just about weight, it is about reducing body fat

To lose body fat, don’t just focus on weight! Doctors say that there are many popular quick weight loss methods, whether fasting or fruit weight loss, which will only consume water. Although it can achieve the effect of losing 1-2 kg in a short period of time, it is easy to stagnate. They call for the focus of weight loss to be on losing fat. It is necessary to control dietary calories and continue aerobic exercise to consume body fat. That is the real way to lose weight.

The key to losing weight is to lose fat, which can be achieved by controlling dietary calories and doing continuous aerobic exercise, such as pedaling a flywheel in the gym.

Lin Yannong, a doctor at the Obesity Prevention and Treatment Center of Wan Fang Hospital, said that body fat is more difficult to measure than BMI value. Body fat percentage refers to the proportion of body fat tissue. Because body fat is not conductive, instruments are used to detect the size of the body's resistance, and then a person's body fat percentage is calculated through a formula.

For obese people, body fat is often proportional to the BMI value. Dr. Lin Yannong said that the normal body fat percentage of adult males is about 15-25%, and that of women is 20-30%. However, patients in weight loss clinics often have a body fat percentage of more than 30%. Generally, as the weight gradually decreases, the body fat percentage will also decrease.

Some people seem to have lost a lot of weight, but Dr. Lin Yannong reminds that it is still easy for the body to store fat, especially for those who rely solely on a restricted diet to lose weight. Therefore, in addition to controlling calorie intake, it is also necessary to continue doing aerobic exercise and maintain a moderate intensity for a certain period of time so that the fat can be easily consumed.

Currently, "the function of not easily forming body fat" is also one of the approved functions of health food, but it does not mean that as long as you drink it, it can promote the breakdown of the original body fat. People should not have the wrong expectation of weight loss. (Photography by Huang Zhiwen)

Currently, "the function of not easily forming body fat" is also one of the approved functions of health foods. So can drinking this kind of beverage reduce body fat? Doctor Lin Yannong believes that literally speaking, the claim of this type of beverage is that it is not easy to form body fat after drinking it, but he does not comment on whether it promotes the breakdown of fat in the body.

In fact, the only way to turn on the switch for fat consumption is to do continuous aerobic exercise, which is to achieve the "333 exercise principle" promoted by the Department of Health: at least 3 times a week, at least 30 minutes each time, and exercise that makes the heart rate reach 130 beats per day. He emphasized that it is impossible to make fat disappear just by "eating" something, and the public should not have the wrong expectations for weight loss.