Came across this article on ahealthyme.com this evening.   Anyone who has trained with me, would think that the statement “Weight lifting can help you lose fat” is  pretty obvious.  But it always blows me away how many people don’t know this, or worse, they don’t believe it.

In the article the author writes the following…

If you’re dieting, weight lifting can help you lose fat instead of muscle and bone. Most people don’t realize it, but when they diet, only about 60 to 75 percent of the weight they lose is actually fat. So if you shed 20 pounds, five or six of those pounds are from nonfat tissue, including muscle, bone, and water — leaving your body weaker. But exercise, particularly the iron-pumping kind, can preserve muscle bone, so that up to 85 percent of what you trim is fat, says Dale Schoeller, a nutrition researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Here’s the link to the entire article.  Maybe you can pass it along to a non-believer.

http://www.ahealthyme.com/topic/liftweightloss