Difference Between Losing Weight and Losing Fat You can be loosing weight without losing fat and you can be losing fat without losing weight. Many people are losing weight but they are not losing fat. The fat is still there though they appear to be gone. How is this possible? Fat is stored in fat cells in the body as chemical energy. When the number in your scale goes down, you would have lost some percentage of fat indeed though most of the weight loss may be water and glycogen. In any case, the fat cells may be shrinked but the cells themselves are not gotten rid off and because you may go back to your normal eating lifestyle, the fat cells will eventually be refilled and if you are not careful, more fat cells will be created and alas! there is your old body staring at you in the mirror again. The reason is simple. It is because your defense is down. We have no control over most things that make up our basal metabolic rate (BMR) I. e what is used to measure your metabo