How Much Weight Can You Lose in a Week?

peterdt

http://news.menshealth.com/lose-weight-in-week/2012/10/01/

Found this interesting article.

peterdt

I know topic has been beat to death. But I never saw it laid out clearly before by the numbers.

acogg

Wow, thanks! This part lept out at me: "Resistance training is key to keeping muscle while burning fat. In one Columbia University study, participants cut calories and were assigned either to strength-train or do cardio three times a week. After eight weeks, everyone lost more than 9 percent of their body weight. But in the aerobic group, 20 percent of that came from lean tissue (mostly muscle), while the resistance group limited lean-tissue loss to 8 percent."

peterdt

Wow, thanks! This part lept out at me: "Resistance training is key to keeping muscle while burning fat. In one Columbia University study, participants cut calories and were assigned either to strength-train or do cardio three times a week. After eight weeks, everyone lost more than 9 percent of their body weight. But in the aerobic group, 20 percent of that came from lean tissue (mostly muscle), while the resistance group limited lean-tissue loss to 8 percent."

Yeah, and I don't do that... yet. I never liked strength training much. not sure why. I think I have to give it another go though. Seems like a very common theme for people who have lost quite a bit of weight.