Percentage of Fat Loss from Common Diets

The internet is so full of diets promising results using fancy videos and charts, that it’s pretty much impossible to figure out if any of them are actually worth paying for. The problem is that we know we have to find one diet and stick with it, rather than hop from diet to diet, as this will lower our body’s ability to lose weight naturally.

Most diets will produce weight loss and some will help us lose it faster than others. However, what we all really want from a diet is the loss of fat stores from the body. We need a diet that helps our body burn fat, rather than just lose water, fat and muscle.

The Good News: We’re fat-burning machines

No matter how much we eat our body will always burn a small percentage of fat during the day. If we consume this much energy or more during the day, fat is simply replaced and we maintain or increase our fat stores. When we consume less energy than required the fat naturally burned cannot be replaced because there is no excess of energy to be stored.

For this reason when we lose weight, there will always be some degree of fat loss. The problem is that there’s also a loss of lean weight together with the fat. Any weight loss is a combination of water, protein and fat.

The Bad News: We eat too much, and we’re retaining water

The idea with any chosen diet is to burn off as much fat as possible while at the same time losing the least amount of lean weight. This is important because a loss of too much lean weight contributes to a weight loss plateau. The trouble with some diets is they cause the loss of more water and protein compared to the amount of fat, often giving the dieter the false sense that they are losing fat quickly.

Many people wrongly associate weight loss with fat loss, when very often it is only caused by your body shedding retained water. If any weight lost is composed mainly of water then the dieter will simply regain most weight at a later stage or after the diet is discontinued. It could mean a weight loss of 10 pounds within a few weeks is really only 2 pounds after a further 2 weeks!

Below is a chart that estimates the percentage of fat loss using different diets over the course of 2 weeks. The remaining weight loss will be made up of water, glycogen and protein loss.

One thing you’ll notice: eating less does not necessarily equate with losing a lot of fat.

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* The percentage of fat loss for each diet is a rough estimate based on the opinion of the author. There are numerous other factors involved that will determine the actual percentage of fat a person can lose using various diets. It's possible that some diets may cause a greater percentage of fat loss.