The Weight Loss Dilemma

Hey everyone.
Why I call the weight loss concept a dilemma is because not many people know of this as 'concept' as much as they're mistaken about it as a 'dilemma'. They haste to lose weight. What they don't simply get is that numbers aren't all that there is to weight loss or even to weight gain. When you seek to lose weight, be prepared to face bodily changes. If you do this in the positive manner the changes will be positive. Factors such as your bone structure, genetic body type, exercise, diet, your water weight, your LBM (lean body mass: the weight of your body without the fat), your hormones and a lot more. I will post on these or make a separate blog for this as well.
Anyway, most people think that if they'd stop eating they would end up with a body like the many celebrities and models that they see on television, magazines, etc. But WHAT is the reality to crash dieting like that?
The reality to crash dieting is that you end up with a disgusting flabby body. This is known as the skinny-fat syndrome. Its horrible. You look thin, you can fit into tiny clothes but when the shirt comes off out come the flab rolls. Such people would rather NOT taking off their shirts ever. For those people who have ended up this way there still is hope. For those seeking to lose weight, let me tell you: do not go this way as your body will have eaten up its own muscles. 
Let me explain to you what exactly this means. When you seek to lose weight, you decide to eat less than what you usually eat. (Doing this isn't wrong if you know how to do it). You change your diet and structure it to lose weight. When losing weight you are also losing fat, water, an extent of muscle (which could be controlled). Start eating far less than you should and though you will decrease your WEIGHT on the scale, your body-fat percentage will increase. As your body consumes its muscles due to an extremely low caloric intake, it ends up flabby and soft.
This is exactly what happened to me. There came a point when I decided I needed to lose weight. That point came about when once I had to go to a dinner with my family and decided to wear jeans. As I tried fitting into them, I heard this "cccrrrrrccccchhhhhhh" sound and found out I had managed to tear the jeans with my fat thighs. At this point I was 86kgs. My waist was 36 inches and I was fat. I looked hideous. I had man-boobs of the worst kind. So I then decided to diet. I was 15 at the time. I started looking at diets like the south beach diet. It wouldn't work on me because I was doing it wrongly without any kind of exercise though I would run for hours hoping to lose the fat. I started losing the weight, no doubt. I started losing inches off of my waist to end up with a 33-34 inch waist. But I didn't realise that I had also lost any muscle I had. I wasn't going to gym at the time and because I wasn't doing resistance training of any kind, had no idea about nutrition and only ran for hours I ended up with a flabby and soft body.
Though cardiovascular exercises do have their benefits, doing these for too long in the day exhausts your body and your body doesn't build any muscle-in fact muscle is lost and even more of this muscle is lost if you aren't doing resistance training of any kind to build muscles. Calories are necessary to build and to hold on to muscle. Even a gym novice does have muscles though they just have to be trained. (I will come up with more blogs for calories and their importance) . However, when you lose calories your body is consuming what it has stored from the body that has entered your body. As a consequence, yes weight is lost but that's only because of the loss of lean body mass. You therefore end up with a high body fat percentage and weigh less: you got the weight you wanted but at the cost of what you wanted for your body. Oxy-moronic isn't it?
I'll be posting more about this. Email me at hmraja89@gmail.com if you want to talk about this. Much more's headed your way about how to fix this and other stuff too :)