Will a High Calorie But Low Fat Diet Help You Lose Fat?
Posted in: Getting Started, Weight Loss
One visitor to FitWatch was asking, “Will a high calorie but low fat diet, and exercise, help me lose fat?” I’ve got one word for that: N-O.
Remember, fat doesn’t make you fat. Generally speaking, eating more calories than your body burns will cause you to store fat. The only way for you to lose fat on a high calorie diet is to exercise A LOT, so you burn all those extra calories — or do a lot of weight training to turn it into muscle.
A low calorie diet (below 1200 for women, 1800 for men) isn’t any better either. Your body needs calories for everyday use — you even burn calories while you sleep.
To lose fat, you need to create a calorie deficit, by either lowering the amount of calories you eat, by burning more calories through exercise, or both.
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Suzanne is the owner of FitWatch. She's had strong interest in nutrition and exercise for over 20 years, and is an ACE-certified Lifestyle & Weight Management Coach. Back in 2002, she started FitWatch.com because she wanted to help people lose weight by creating helpful tools and calculators. A huge fan of calorie counting, Suzanne created the FitWatch Fitness Tracker to make it easy for people to count their calories.
