Loosing all muscle not fat... HELP

First off, Tesco is a supermarket, not a specialist center for this kind of thing so there is probably a reasonably large margin of error depending on how body fat percentage is mesured.

How was it mesured?

By the way - great drop in weight

These machines are way out same a boots ones
As long as you counting calories eating healthy 90% of the time and taking some exercise I doubt you'll be gaining fat
Well done

They are effected greatly by hydration. Ignore it and I'd personally save the 50p and use scales at home.

It takes a rather expensive piece of equipment to give accurate body fat analysis. I wouldn't trust the results.

Sounds like you're very disciplined and thats great. But I would offer some advice.

My first concern would be that losing 10lbs in a month is alot, especially for someone your size. Perhaps a little too much. Most professionals will recommend no more than 2lbs of weight loss per week. I would point out here that one of the downsides to losing weight at that rate is that it increases the ratio of lean vs fat weight loss. It's very difficult to lose 8% of your body weight as you did, and have it all come from body fat.

The second concern with that rate of weight loss is the potential effect on your metabolism. If you starve your body too much, there is the potential to send your body into defense mode, meaning it may reduce metabolism to protect itself against perceived starvation. For example, to exaggerate my point, let's assume your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is 1800 calories per day. If you begin eating an 800 calorie diet, it is highly likely that your body will respond by reducing your BMR, to let's say 1200 or even lower. This is obviously very bad.

This is why professionals say two things:
(1) Limit calorie restriction such that your weight loss is capped at 2lbs per week.
(2) Do some strength training during weight loss to limit potential muscle loss.

(1) Use MFP to control your weight loss by restricting caloric intake by no more than 1000 calories per day of your food burn. But do not under eat less than 1200 calories per day. If you need to increase your food burn, then do it with exercise, not by going under 1200 calories. Since the BMR for somebody of your age, height and weight is 1400 calories per day, you will need to burn 800 calories per day with activity to increase your calorie burn to 2200, allowing you to eat 1200. This will give you a deficit of 1000 per day, which is where you want to be.

(2) The best way to reduce the ration of lean vs fat is to do exercises that stress the muscle during weight loss. A simple solution for you might be to spend 15 minutes per day and do pushups & squats.

Great job with discipline! And you're very smart to be watching your lean mass. Good luck!

prattiger65 wrote: »

Want to keep muscle while you lose weight. Lift heavy stuff! Seriously, a progressive overload weight training program. Not to mention the added benefit of looking like a million dollars.

This what I was told too

I've started Bodypump and love lifting and want to move onto heavy lifting as I've seen the results of some of the ladies who have already moved from BP to the weights floor.

I was told to increase my protein and to have my protein shake before and after my workouts. Too early to tell if it's all working but I feel great and inches are dropping off.

Depending on how the % is measured, your apparent decrease in height likely means that either the before or the after number is not accurate, so a comparison of the two might not be meaningful