What would happen if you had 0% body fat, but kept dieting and eating really healthy?

What would happen if someone who was very fit, had 0% body fat, but kept dieting, regularly eating a lot of things like vegetables, fruits, lean turkey, etc.?

Would their weight loss just stop due to no more mass to lose?

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Mothers’ attitudes toward fat, weight, and dieting in themselves and their children

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This digital document is a journal article from Body Image, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We examined how a mother’s view of her body, and fatness in general, affects her attitude toward her child’s weight and eating. Mothers (N=118) of 3-5-year-old children filled out a … More >>

Mothers’ attitudes toward fat, weight, and dieting in themselves and their children

Mothers’ attitudes toward fat, weight, and dieting in themselves and their children

Product Description
This digital document is a journal article from Body Image, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Description:
We examined how a mother’s view of her body, and fatness in general, affects her attitude toward her child’s weight and eating. Mothers (N=118) of 3-5-year-old children filled out a … More >>

Mothers’ attitudes toward fat, weight, and dieting in themselves and their children

Dieting And Exercise Have The Same Effect On Body Fat Distribution

Whether you eat fewer calories or burn them off through exercise, the effect on body composition and fat distribution is the same.

Researchers found that dieting alone is as effective as a combination of diet and exercise at cutting weight and fat – as long as calories consumed and burned equal out.

Adding exercise to a weight-loss program doesn’t change body composition and abdominal fat distribution. That challenges the theory that specific exercises can reduce fat in certain areas. For example, some exercises are supposed to specifically target abdominal fat.

It’s all about the calories. So long as the energy deficit is the same, body weight, fat weight, and abdominal fat will all decrease in the same way.

The researches conduct a study. They divide people into three groups: One group went on a diet that reduced their caloric intake by 25 percent (550 to 900 fewer calories a day); the second group reduced their caloric intake by 12.5 percent and increased their physical activity to burn 12.5 percent more calories.

The people in the third group were put on a healthy diet designed to maintain their body weight.

After six months, the people in both the calorie-restricted and the calorie reduction/exercise groups had lost about 10 percent of their bodyweight, 24 percent of their fat mass, and 27 percent of their abdominal fat. However, their distribution of body fat remained the same.

The inability of the interventions to alter the distribution of fat suggests that individuals are genetically programmed for fat storage in a particular pattern and that this programming cannot easily be overcome.

While dieting alone can reduce weight, the researchers noted that exercise also improves aerobic fitness, which has many other health benefits.

For overall health, an appropriate program of diet and exercise is still the best.

Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body

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From the leading bloggers in the fat-acceptance movement comes an empowering guide to body image- no matter what the scales say.

When it comes to body image, women can be their own worst enemies, aided and abetted by society and the media. But Harding and Kirby, the leading bloggers in the “fatosphere,” the online community of the fat acceptance movement, have written a book to help readers achieve admiration for-or at least a truce with-their bodies…. More >>

Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body