How can i loose more fat, instead of gaining muscle.

The more muscle you gain, the more fat you burn, so you actually WANT to gain muscle.

I agree you are not eating enough and muscle burns calories. So you want the muscle!

You aren't eating NEARLY enough. 1200 is minimum without any exercise. What you are doing will put your body into starvation mode and shut down your metabolism.

you want to gain muscle, for this is the only way to burn fat. you are eating too few calories for your fitness level. your body is going to hold on to the fat, while your muscles are wasting away because you are in starvation mode.

Thank you guys for the input, i wasn't aware that muscle burned more fat. I was only stuck on the fact that "muscle weighs more than fat" and i really just want the number on the scale to go down. And I am not trying to put my body into starvation, i cut out all of my junk food, and have been eating lots of fruits and lean protein which doesn't have as many calories but is very fulfilling, I am never hungry and eat 4 times a day, eating 1200 calories would require me to eat even though im not hungry. any suggestions

Muscle doesn't weight more than fat in the sense that you're thinking. Five pounds is five pounds whether it is muscle or fat. What they mean is by volume. So say you have an amount of fat that is the shape and size of a brick....and then you have a brick of muscle that is the same size and shape, but it will weigh more because muscle is more dense. So if you're burning fat and gaining muscle, the scale may go up a little, but you'll be smaller, leaner, and healthier, which is way better than any number on a scale.

If the scale isn't giving you the results you want, measure by inches, clothes and pictures. Take your measurements once a month to see your progress, judge by how well your clothes fit and take pictures once a month. When I lost 50 pounds, I took pictures every ten pounds, and I really didn't think I would see a difference between each picture but even 10 pounds between losing 30 and 40 you could see a huge difference in the pics.

Not feeling hungry is a symptom of starvation mode because your metabolism is shutting down to conserve itself. Think of yourself on a nice spring day, you energy is up, you're happy and feel great. You go out for a run and you feel like you could go all day. This is your metabolism when you're feeding it right. The more you feed it (within your calorie range) the better it will work and help you burn.

Then think of yourself on a day that you zapped of energy and it's 100 degrees outside. Your laying around like a lump, even getting off the couch makes you sweat so you just lay around because trying to do anything makes you even more hot and tired. This is your metabolism when you're not feeding it enough. It slows way down so that it can hold on to as much food and energy as possible, because running like normal would burn through the food that you've got in your system.

I hate to say eat even if you're not hungry, but you need to in order to get your metabolism back up and running. On the days when you need more calories but you're not hungry for them, eat something high in calories but low in volume. Nuts and seeds are great for this, even just a glass of fat free skim milk will provide 80-100 calories but won't fill you up that much.

i am not even going to talk about starvation mode, i am going to say you are hurting your body and doing more harm then good only taking in 500 calories a day. you need calories to live, to breath, to function and be healthy. If you need more calories, try high calorie good foods, like nuts or peanut butter, put some on your celery. walnuts are wonderful and full of good fats your body needs. Aim for 3 meals and 2 snacks a day. I know when i do not eat i get on a cycle of not being hungry. Make good choices but try to take in more.