Just cardio or weights aswell?

DaddieCat

daniwilford wrote: »

darrenj1987, askes how can losing weight become unhealthy? Answer: when it comes from muscles, which it most certainly will with quick weight loss, consisting of greater than 1% of body weight per week. As much as 25% of your loss is coming from lean tissue. A body will only metabolize a finite amount of fat in a finite time period, no matter how perfect your diet and exercise routine. The worst part about it is it can be vital organ muscle that can be depleted, like your heart.

While this is true, it's a lot less extreme than you are stating especially for an obese or morbidly obese person. Someone who has a considerable amount of weight to lose can mobilize fat more quickly and effectively than someone who does not. Additionally, any kind of resistance exercise combats lean tissue loss. Lifting, or even body weight will provide enough resistance training to stave off a considerable amount of lean tissue loss, especially combined with enough protein intake. Additionally, barring some major physiological issues, lean tissue loss will not occur in vital tissues unless as a later (closer to last) resort.

You don't need to worry that they will digest their heart at this stage... just saying.

daniwilford

OP is a female with about 60 or so pounds to lose. Unless she is short for her age, this would not constitute being morbidly obese. I was only answering the question" how can losing weight become unhealthy?"