Losing fat without burning muscle

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geotrice

Merkavar wrote: »

dmiivanov wrote: »

I heard some people claim to even have built some while dieting.. But last year I've lost 30lbs in 3 months and a ton of muscle! I was lifting really heavy too

How much is a ton of muscle? 5 pounds? 10 pounds?

I think when people claim they gained muscles while in a deficit it's when they start off with barely any muscles to begin with. Noob gains I think is the term.

The hints and tips I hear are to eat 1 gram of protein per pound of lean body weight. Lift heavy things and to not lose to much. Smaller the weight lose per week the less comes from muscle it seems.

A ton is 2,000 lbs. in the U.S.A. and 2,240 lbs. in the U.K.

;-p

mburgess458

MrM27 wrote: »

yopeeps025 wrote: »

Mr_Knight wrote: »

yopeeps025 wrote: »

PAV8888 wrote: »

**LOW deficits**
HIGH protein.
HEAVY weights.
= "MAXIMUM SPARING"

If your profile picture is you now, you're looking at 250Cal a day deficits AT MOST.

What about a 100 calorie deficit or 50 calorie deficit to maintain the most muscle mass?

In practice, it's extremely difficult to be that precise. Even if you manage to get perfect accuracy on the intake side, you won't on the burn side.

Trial and error. Some people can figure out the numbers to be this close.

The problem is that with a surplus or deficit like that your margin of error is so small that just a little extra life activity or the smallest miscalculation in intake will more than likely have you spinning your wheels. Remember, you're not going to eat the same thing every day, with every other single variable the same. You would have to never go out to eat, never live life the way you want to. If you don't crack from the lack of progress then eventually you'll drive yourself mad from boredom. In theory it would work but when we apply all the sciences and life then it changes everything.

Not only that, the calories in food aren't that precise. For example, not all pieces of lean meat have exactly the same number of calories even if they weigh exactly the same....not all apples the same weight have the same calories...etc. Plus your body isn't 100% efficient at extracting calories and the efficiency varies based on exactly what you ate so if you aren't eating exactly the same things every day there will be variance from that. No way you can accurately get down to within a 50 calorie deficit on a consistent basis.