LiberalStance
05-16-2004, 08:33 AM
Simple question.
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Summer Girl
05-16-2004, 12:09 PM
The answer to your question is yes.
If you diet improperly.
If you diet improperly.
Sakura
05-16-2004, 12:50 PM
Of course. Remember to keep your proteïn intake high enough and don't restrict too much to avoid it.
DonutsNCoffee
05-16-2004, 05:51 PM
Simple question.
Yes. In fact, this is why so many people end up gaining back more weight than they lost. They dieted, lost muscle which slowed their metabolism, then went back to their old eating habits. Muscle loss boils down to insufficient calories. Muscle is the most expensive tissue to maintain so the body will start to get rid of it when it senses a caloric deficit. There are ways to minimize the muscle loss while on a fat loss plan.
1. Weight train. Weight training tells the body you need that muscle and not to get rid of it.
2. Eat protein every 3 hours. The body needs a steady supply of protein and when it doesn't get enough, it will beging breaking down muscle.
3. Get at least 10% calories from fat. Low calories isn't the only thing that puts you into starvation mode. The body needs a certain amount of dietary fat to operate properly. People who try to cut out all fat will put themselves into starvation mode.
Yes. In fact, this is why so many people end up gaining back more weight than they lost. They dieted, lost muscle which slowed their metabolism, then went back to their old eating habits. Muscle loss boils down to insufficient calories. Muscle is the most expensive tissue to maintain so the body will start to get rid of it when it senses a caloric deficit. There are ways to minimize the muscle loss while on a fat loss plan.
1. Weight train. Weight training tells the body you need that muscle and not to get rid of it.
2. Eat protein every 3 hours. The body needs a steady supply of protein and when it doesn't get enough, it will beging breaking down muscle.
3. Get at least 10% calories from fat. Low calories isn't the only thing that puts you into starvation mode. The body needs a certain amount of dietary fat to operate properly. People who try to cut out all fat will put themselves into starvation mode.
jowi
05-17-2004, 02:29 AM
1. Weight train. Weight training tells the body you need that muscle and not to get rid of it.
Question: What about cardio? I know when I've gone for long periods of time without really working out I get all "soft". Then when I start working out and doing mainly cardio (running, step aerobics, Nordic Trac, etc.) my muscles (legs especially) get "hard" again and my legs start to firm up. Isn't this also building muscle?
Question: What about cardio? I know when I've gone for long periods of time without really working out I get all "soft". Then when I start working out and doing mainly cardio (running, step aerobics, Nordic Trac, etc.) my muscles (legs especially) get "hard" again and my legs start to firm up. Isn't this also building muscle?
farscape66
05-17-2004, 09:00 AM
I lost 200 lbs in 2 years on my own invented diet. It was messed up and I lost a lot of muscle. I feel worse now than I did when I had the weight. Be very careful not to fall into the trap I did.
zip2play
05-17-2004, 10:08 AM
I'm convinced that NO diet can lose fat without the loss of some muscle as well. The best we can do is make sure that there is always a supply of protein to call upon for gluconeogenesis as well as replacement of lost muscle and lean.
Even then the muscles MUST be induced to growth by resistance exercise (not aerobics.) This should keep muscle loss to a minimum.
Evolution has done it's best to guarantee survival in cases of food shortage, but evolution cares not a whit how we look in a pair of Speedos on the beach! :wave:
And those pecs that were so hard to build up can easily be converted to a sugar supply for the brain...how sad :dizzy: !
Even then the muscles MUST be induced to growth by resistance exercise (not aerobics.) This should keep muscle loss to a minimum.
Evolution has done it's best to guarantee survival in cases of food shortage, but evolution cares not a whit how we look in a pair of Speedos on the beach! :wave:
And those pecs that were so hard to build up can easily be converted to a sugar supply for the brain...how sad :dizzy: !
TonyTone
05-19-2004, 06:28 AM
Just out of curiousity, do you think weight training, and a low carb diet since it's high in protein, would reduce the amount of muscle one loses when dropping weight?