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Weight: losing fat without losing your mind
Weight on Navilo covers losing body fat at a sustainable pace: setting a calorie deficit, keeping muscle, getting past plateaus and reading your weight trend.
The scale is a moody narrator. It jumps around with salt, sleep and stress, and it rarely tells you what is really happening week to week.
Here you will find what actually moves body fat over time, how to keep your muscle while you do it, and how to read your own trend instead of a single morning weigh-in.
Written by Pierre Klasson · Updated
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Common questions
How fast is it safe to lose weight?
For most people around 0.5 to 1 kg a week. Faster than that usually means losing muscle and feeling miserable, which makes it hard to keep going.
Read more: Weight Loss: How to Burn Body Fat and Keep It OffWhy has my weight stopped going down?
Often it has not. Water and salt can hide fat loss for a week or two. Look at your weekly average, not a single morning on the scale.
Read more: Weight Loss: How to Burn Body Fat and Keep It OffDo I need to do cardio to lose fat?
No. The calorie deficit does most of the work. Strength training helps you keep muscle, and walking is an easy way to burn a bit more.
Read more: Weight Loss: How to Burn Body Fat and Keep It Off