How fast can you lose fat and/or muscle?

ajc1309
ajc1309 Posts: 255 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I posted a topic yesterday which made me realise that most of my weight loss was probably muscle not fat. I stepped on the scale yesterday and saw that I'd lost a pound and again this morning, stepped on the scale and saw that I'd lost ANOTHER pound. I then measured myself and saw that'd I've lost half an inch from around my stomach, so was this fat loss or muscle?

I haven't exercised in about 4 days and I've upped my calories a little (wasn't eating near enough calories before, hence the realisation that my weight loss was probably half muscle)

How fast can you lose muscle or fat?

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  • ajc1309
    ajc1309 Posts: 255 Member
    anyone?
  • maqsmj
    maqsmj Posts: 697
    yap just a sec
  • lvtruu1
    lvtruu1 Posts: 211 Member
    You aren't losing a lot of muscle while dieting. It becomes more of a problem as you get leaner but If you are obese it isn't much of an issue. Yes you'll lose some as you get smaller. 4:1 ratio is what I've read. But you do have to lose some, LBM isn't all muscle. As you lose weight, you don't need some muscle that supports your fat and connective tissues. Lift heavy weights and eat a lot of protein and it won't be much of an issue.
  • kiachu
    kiachu Posts: 409 Member
    There is no definitive answer to your questions and if anyone tries to give you one they are pulling out of their butt. There is no standard. Our bodies are different our diets are different, our metabolism are different, and our activity levels are different. Unless you are personally using some sort of body fat monitoring system, and are in some scientific setting there is no way to tell for YOU personally how fast you can lose muscle or fat.

    You need to stop obsessing about it. If your not doing any resistance training and starving yourself you will lose water, fat, and muscle. period.

    Eat food, do some body-weight exercises, take a walk now and then.
  • maqsmj
    maqsmj Posts: 697
    ok, you can lose fairly 1-2 pounds a week, and muscle losing may take time but not that fast, the change in ur scale because of water , toilet, and many other things so dont check it on daily basis even hourly basis

    stick with weight lifting to keep your mass muscle, and if you really like cardio then do it but eat enough protien to match it, which is 1 g of protien for 1 lb and the best way to measure if you are losing weight or not is by getting your BF% ( body fat % ) ask the folks in the gym to get it for you using clippers or use any other methods using measuring tape to calculate it

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