How can you gain muscle when you eat less on Low Carb diet?

thecapaccino
thecapaccino Posts: 138
in Fitness and Exercise
I was just curious.

Some people post that while on a low calorie, low carb diet.. (or any other I think), that you should not just look at the scale...but your measurements.

This is because you are supposed to be losing fat and gaining muscle which weighs more.

So does your body "convert" fat to muscle`? Or does it lose the fat and at the same time build muscle from such small calorie intake e.g 1200-1500 calories ?

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  • raystark
    raystark Posts: 403 Member
    It's more like you are losing more fat than muscle, not gaining muscle while losing the fat.

    Eat plenty of protein and lifts weights while on a calorie deficit and each pound you lose will, hopefully, be something like 80% fat, 20% muscle.

    The sweet part is that losing the fat which is hiding the muscles you do have causes more definition, making it look like you have added muscle. Truth is, it was there all along, just hidden under a layer of fat.
  • Lift_hard_eat_big
    Lift_hard_eat_big Posts: 2,278 Member
    It's more like you are losing more fat than muscle, not gaining muscle while losing the fat.

    Eat plenty of protein and lifts weights while on a calorie deficit and each pound you lose will, hopefully, be something like 80% fat, 20% muscle.

    The sweet part is that losing the fat which is hiding the muscles you do have causes more definition, making it look like you have added muscle. Truth is, it was there all along, just hidden under a layer of fat.

    Perfect answer, thread over
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    Eat plenty of protein and lifts weights while on a calorie deficit and each pound you lose will, hopefully, be something like 80% fat, 20% muscle.

    is this ratio for real? if so thanks for posting because i've recently discovered that 10% of my weight loss has been from LBM and I was thinking it might be too much..

    and yeah i lost it while eating at a deficit but lots of protein and heavy strength training programs (nrol4w and strong lifts)
  • kdneal2012
    kdneal2012 Posts: 4
    Definitely increase your protein intake!
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    It's more like you are losing more fat than muscle, not gaining muscle while losing the fat.

    Eat plenty of protein and lifts weights while on a calorie deficit and each pound you lose will, hopefully, be something like 80% fat, 20% muscle.

    The sweet part is that losing the fat which is hiding the muscles you do have causes more definition, making it look like you have added muscle. Truth is, it was there all along, just hidden under a layer of fat.

    Perfect answer, thread over

    Yup!
  • HYBRIDXXX
    HYBRIDXXX Posts: 86
    PLEASE PPL MUSCLE DOES NT WEIGH MORE THAN FAT.
    MUSCLE TAKES UP LESS SPACE ON DA BODY GIVING U
    DAT FIT LOOK. IF U WEIGHED A LB OF MUSCLE & A LB OF FAT
    THEY BOTH WILL STILL WEIGH A LB. A LOTTA PPL THINK
    THAT & SAY IT ALSO BT VERY UNTRUE. MUSCLE & FAT
    R TWO DIFFERENT TISSUES SO NEITHER ONE CAN B
    CONVERTED INTO DA OTHER.
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    It's more like you are losing more fat than muscle, not gaining muscle while losing the fat.

    Eat plenty of protein and lifts weights while on a calorie deficit and each pound you lose will, hopefully, be something like 80% fat, 20% muscle.

    The sweet part is that losing the fat which is hiding the muscles you do have causes more definition, making it look like you have added muscle. Truth is, it was there all along, just hidden under a layer of fat.

    Perfect answer, thread over

    Yup!

    I came on to say that last part. What a nice feeling I get when I see people giving good advice

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