What is the difference between gaining weight and gaining fat?

Question

Is it the same? Please enlighten me about it, thank you!

Answer 1

You don't say. Sounds like a free advertisement.

Anyway, good luck to the hot guys in your neighbourhood!

Meanwhile ...

Unless we feel 100% confident of our appearance and our physical capabilities, we will tend to compare ourselves to others and say, “I want to be like that person”.

Hence the commercial success of celebrity diets, celebrity endorsed abdominal exercise machines, and the like. Believing the celebrity is perfect, we aspire to be like them so we can be perfect, too.

However, in the diet and fitness stakes, there's no point in betting on that same "perfection" because we are all unique.

Fact: no two people on planet earth are identical. Each person has his or her unique set of genes (which is why DNA testing can identify a single individual from all others); plus each person has his own unique set of experiences.

This doesn't mean it’s wrong to have role models, only that you shouldn’t expect to duplicate their attributes exactly. You can use role models to benchmark your own achievements but your outcomes will be those which are biologically ideal for you.

You can achieve your own ideal body weight, not someone else's, because your body is unique. Lean doesn't mean lightweight; it means no excess body fat. And fitness simply means striving for your personal best.

There's good reading on losing excess body fat and adopting healthy diet and fitness routines at:

http://www.goodnet.com.au/good-health

Also, for the seriously overweight:

http://www.goodnet.com.au/strip-that-fat

Good links and downloads to get you on your way to your ideal physical self.

Answer 2

Gaining weight can be a lot of different things! Gaining fat is more unhealthy that gaining muscle...and it does not look very good either!

I have been doing some reading about weightgain etc. on different fitness sites and thinks this one have the most interesting articles about the subject : www.seek4fitness.net.

Answer 3

it is the same. You can say "I gained weight" when you got fat or when you got muscle. What you get is mostly determined by your body type - genetics, and secondly - by what you eat and your lifestyle. You know about three body types: ectomorphic -characterized by long and thin muscles/limbs and low fat storage; usually referred to as slim. Mesomorphic - characterized by large bones, solid torso, low fat levels, wide shoulders with a narrow waist.

Endomorphic - characterized by increased fat storage, a wide waist and a large bone structure. Mesomorphic, "meaty" type gain its weight in muscle. Endomorphic will gain in fat. Ectomorphic is hard to gain any weight at all.

If you eat a lot of low fat protein and lead active lifestyle, you will get muscle, no matter what your body type is - of course, lucky mesomorphic type will get more muscles than other two.

It's rare for people to be strictly one type, their physics  are usually mixed: meso-endomorphic, for example.

Answer 4

Gaining weight can have multiple meanings because it can mean that you are gaining muscle, fat, or maybe a mix of both. While gaining fat means you have only gained...well, fat. So they are not the same. Gaining weight can also mean the addition of muscle.

Answer 5

They are one in the same..the term, weight, is used in conjunction with any overall gain. Some will be fat. You can't just gain muscle and the fat you gain can't be converted to muscle...you're workout and diet will dictate how much of either you keep.