Loosing all muscle not fat... HELP

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  • sunfastrose
    sunfastrose Posts: 543 Member
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    My question is how did you lose height in addition to weight?
  • comeonnow142857
    comeonnow142857 Posts: 310 Member
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    sunfastrose wrote: »
    My question is how did you lose height in addition to weight?

    People's height varies by an inch all the time (not even accounting for variations in heel size)
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    edited February 2017
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    sunfastrose wrote: »
    My question is how did you lose height in addition to weight?

    She was wearing different shoes.

    OP, your losses are too big, losing too aggressively can lead to more muscle loss is ideal. You should slow down your rate of loss, up your protein and get strength training which can be all the way from bodyweight through to a progressive heavy lifting program.

    Don't trust what any of these bodyfat scales say, they are far too inaccurate to provide anything overly meaningful.
  • FreyasRebirth
    FreyasRebirth Posts: 514 Member
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    If it is only going from hand to hand, it misses most of your body. Even ones that can measure more of your body can have a 4% error, high or low. It can show you a 2% change up when you've really gone 3% down! Taking progress photos is going to give more accurate information.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,464 Member
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    The report says your height shrank 2 cm in a month. Is that accurate? Were you measured barefoot both times?
  • Chadxx
    Chadxx Posts: 1,199 Member
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    The simple and correct answer is that the readings are highly inaccurate. Don't bother stressing over them.
  • ShareeEmma
    ShareeEmma Posts: 64 Member
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    VintageFeline wrote: »
    sunfastrose wrote: »
    My question is how did you lose height in addition to weight?

    She was wearing different shoes.

    OP, your losses are too big, losing too aggressively can lead to more muscle loss is ideal. You should slow down your rate of loss, up your protein and get strength training which can be all the way from bodyweight through to a progressive heavy lifting program.

    Don't trust what any of these bodyfat scales say, they are far too inaccurate to provide anything overly meaningful.

    Thank you for answering. I will take that on board, before I realised my loss I had already changed my intake to lower but I'm going to revert it back I want the muscle definition not bones showing Xx
  • ShareeEmma
    ShareeEmma Posts: 64 Member
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    rvezirian wrote: »
    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!

    Thank you so much for this I've screen shotted this on my phone so I can refer back to it x
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 13,925 Member
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    ShareeEmma wrote: »
    rvezirian wrote: »
    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!

    Thank you so much for this I've screen shotted this on my phone so I can refer back to it x

    Your deficit is off your tdee NOT your BMR.

    2lbs is suitable for morbidly obese individuals. Or people whose tdee exceeds 5000Cal a day.

    Others would benefit from defiits in the 10% to 20% of tdee range.

    For most people this is 500Cal a day or 250cal a day.

    Home scale and trending weight app or web site will give you a much better picture than outside weight-ins.

    2cm height difference turns the already suspect bioimpedence results into bigger garbage.

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