Weight Loss vs. Fat Loss

With the alarming and ever-increasing rate of obesity , a common thought that floods many people's minds is; "I need to lose weight." What most of these people don't realize is that they should be saying; "I need to lose fat."
These are not interchangeable comments and there are major differences between simple weight loss and specific fat loss.
The Body has compartments:
Lean Body Mass{Muscles, Skeletal, Organs}
Fat Mass
Water
When losing body weight, the body always tends to lose both muscle and adipose tissue. Muscle, being a denser tissue weighs more and occupies less space than body fat. In a state of carbohydrate deprivation, the body will tend to use muscle protein more readily for energy than body fat. Muscle energy is always the first to be used in a state of starvation. Hence muscle can be easily lost.
Muscle contains 75% water. Hence muscle loss is accompanied with heavy water loss. The loss of glycogen from the liver and muscle also leads to the loss of water. Therefore your bathroom weigh scale shows a drop in the weight, but this is weight loss and not fat loss which is needed.
Muscle loss will slower down your body metabolism {the rate at which the body functions} A slow metabolism body is a lazy body and easily stores fat, doing the exact opposite of what is required.
Crash Diets, Starvation or skipping meals, Excessive cardiovascular exercises while ignoring weight training exercises, and a poor protein intake leads to muscle loss.
So now lets change the term to FAT LOSS