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I was under the illusion that I could drink my two litres of water a day, cut out carbs and I’d be on the road to having a beautiful booty. Boy was I wrong.
Interestingly enough, following the advice my friend gave me this morning I have done a bit more research and he is completely right…
Below is an article from here - understand weight loss and muscle mass now.
Did you know that strength training is crucial for successfully losing weight and keeping it off? I’m talking about weight-bearing exercise. It doesn’t have to be a huge, hulking workout where you’re trying to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime, it just has to be some basic strength training.
Why is strength training important for losing weight? Because a lot of people try to starve themselves into weight loss. They think it’s all about controlling calories. Unfortunately, a lot of dieticians and nutritionists don’t really understand strength training, and they also think that it’s just about calories. Calories in, calories out. If you have a calorie deficit, you’re going to lose weight, if you consume extra calories, you’ll gain body fat. While that’s true, it’s only part of the picture. Sure, you need a calorie deficit to lose weight, but how does your body actually use calories? It’s your lean body mass, that muscle mass underneath your body fat, that burns calories 24/7, allowing you to actually eat more calories without gaining weight.
It’s also important to note that when people talk about weight loss, they throw that term around without really understanding what it means. Everybody says “I want to lose weight,” but they don’t really mean that. They mean they want to lose body fat; they don’t want to just lose weight. A limb amputation will cause you to lose weight, but that’s not what people have in mind! People want to lose body fat. So be careful what you wish for — and don’t use that bathroom scale as a measure of your progress. There are a number of reasons why.
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One is if you just starve yourself and you start losing lean body mass, then that counts as weight loss. But you’ve done yourself no good whatsoever, because now you’ve actually lowered your metabolism. The scale says, “Hey! You lost another three pounds!” But it could be 2 lbs of fat and 1 lb of muscle, and that’s not a good situation to be in. You want to lose maybe 2.9 lbs of fat and 0.1 lbs of muscle, or maybe 3 lbs of fat and no muscle. But to do that, you’ve got to challenge your muscular system through some weight bearing exercise. Source
