Losing body fat %

Helpneeded86

My question is pretty simple. If I keep under my calories that I am allowed will I keep losing body fat % even if my diet is not perfect?

rubadub

Yes, but eating certain foods can make it harder to stick to the lower calorie diet. i.e. you are not a caged animal so can freely eat.

Also if while on the energy/calorie restriction you risk losing muscle as well as fat, if you do not eat enough protein you can drop more muscle mass than otherwise.

So you will certainly lose weight/fat eating nothing but junk, but the chance in you recomposition might be have been different if you ate differently, not to mention the way you feel, energy levels etc.

Also not all foods/drinks of the same calorie value will give the same effect, e.g. big alcohol drinkers are not effected as much when drinking 500kcal of beer than 500kcal of chocolate, the chocolate will make them fatter.

Helpneeded86

rubadub wrote: »

Yes, but eating certain foods can make it harder to stick to the lower calorie diet. i.e. you are not a caged animal so can freely eat.

Also if while on the energy/calorie restriction you risk losing muscle as well as fat, if you do not eat enough protein you can drop more muscle mass than otherwise.

So you will certainly lose weight/fat eating nothing but junk, but the chance in you recomposition might be have been different if you ate differently, not to mention the way you feel, energy levels etc.

Also not all foods/drinks of the same calorie value will give the same effect, e.g. big alcohol drinkers are not effected as much when drinking 500kcal of beer than 500kcal of chocolate, the chocolate will make them fatter.

That is interesting about the alcohol. I always found when I was drinking most weekends for months that id lose weight. Id mainly put it down to lack of appetite for two days after.

rubadub

Helpneeded86 wrote: »

Id mainly put it down to lack of appetite for two days after.

Many have the opposite, they go binge eating in takeaways after a feed of pints and then blame the drink, most beer bellies should be called chipper bellies.

Moderate drinking will have an effect, though still not supposed to be as much as say the same calories in a sugary drink

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/04/health/why-the-body-may-waste-the-calories-from-alcohol.html

For example, weight gain was negligible in alcoholics who were given 2,000 calories of alcohol daily on top of the 2,500 calories from foods they consumed to maintain their weight. But when the same number of additional calories were fed as chocolate, a steady weight gain resulted.

oscar_mike

You could end up loosing muscle also if your diet is not some way decent