Are you on a diet? And how do you know if you are losing fat or water?
One thing that many people who want to lose weight don’t think enough about is that rapid weight loss is more about losing fluids than actually losing body fat.

In this article we see how to recognize “fake” weight loss from fat loss, so false weight loss from real.
Here are 5 things to understand if you are losing fat or water.

ARE YOU ON A DIET? ARE YOU LOSING FAT OR WATER?

Here’s how to find out!

1. Are your weight subject to large and inexplicable fluctuations, have you lost mostly fluids: pounds that come and go?
   The scale that first marks you two kilos less and after a few days marks you one kilo more?
   At that point it is very likely that the diet you are on is causing you to lose water, not body fat.
   This is not to say that those who lose body fat do not have weight fluctuations, but that if suddenly after just one day you take 2,
   simply by eating a teaspoon of sugar if you have been low carb or by introducing that strangely forbidden food into your diet, those 2 are liquid. Which should make you think that the progress seen on the scale is not a real weight loss.
2. If you lose a little weight at a time and the weight loss is steady and increasing , then you are losing body fat (too).
   Not all the weight you lose is body fat weight, of course. In fact, when you are on a diet, you lose water, lean and fat mass. To avoid the depletion of lean mass, essential for having a beautiful body but also a good metabolism, it is necessary not to make drastic caloric deficits, to exercise (especially resistance) and to keep the level of proteins high. This does not mean doing high-protein diets or cutting carbohydrates, since lean mass also needs carbohydrates.