Understanding what sets fat loss and weight loss apart
That number when you step on the scales
– your body weight – represents the sum of your body components (including muscle, fat, water and organs). When that number goes down and you lose weight, it is not a pure reduction in the amount of fat stored in your body – which is what most people are aiming for.
Decreasing the percentage of your overall body fat from 25% to 20% is a much bigger win than trimming your weight from 200lb (90.7kg) to 180lb (81.6kg), if only a fraction of that loss is from fat.