Let's crunch some numbers.......

.....it seems that most men and women alike struggle to lose that "last" 10 pounds of bodyfat......so calories are cut even more..the 10 pounds is lost but - SUPRISE 7 of of the 10 was from muscle thereby shutting down your ability to burn fat in the future due to drop in your bmr.

How many people do you personally know that have lost a significant amount of weight??

Of those, how many were just a smaller version of their older fatter selves??

A lot I bet.

That is a sure sign the diet didnt work as there was a SIGNIFICANT loss of lbm as well as *some* fat.


Is there a better way??


Yes.


Take the time to GAIN 10 pounds of lean body mass.

WHY??

REsearch has consistently shown that a pound of muscle will burn an additional 35-50 calories per day. Every day. For as long as you have it.

For our hypothetical 10 pound muscle gain, that equates to a loss of 0.7-1.0 pounds of fat loss per WEEK......week in - week out....simply by eating maintenance calories from that point on.


Think about it - eating maintenance calories and STILL losing 8.5-12 pounds over a 12 week process....


Try it.

Mr. Cornholio is correct. But why isn't this well known to the majority of people? Overweight people are usually just following bad advice. I've done Weight Watchers and other similar diets...even did Atkins till I wound up in the hospital, joined the women's gym and was trained impropperly...I got no where for years. The people who are privey to the correct information are a very small percentage. I'm curious as to why that is. It's a hell of a lot easier and more fun to spend a little time in the gym a few times a week than to starve yourself constantly only to remain in poor condition.

I'm gonna shut up, I feel my blood pressure rising.

MrsPuddlesFL said:

Mr. Cornholio is correct. But why isn't this well known to the majority of people?

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Good question.

I thought it might help point some new commers to training and diet in the right direction.

Hi,

Cornholio, thank you for posting this!! Mrs. Puddles, I am now just pulling myself out of the hole I dug myself into. I did WW and lost weight but I am so flabby now, and I was always hungry. It was a constant battle. I started training again just this week and have drastically altered my diet. In the past 3 days I have felt better then I have in the three months that I was doing ww's. I am not hungry and I haven't craved anything sweet. Ofcourse it's only three days, but I feel like I'm doing the right thing for my body. You are so right. All it takes is getting to the gym and working really hard for a small amount of time. Hopefully this will all start paying off soon!

I'm going to quote myself on this one...a post I made a few days ago on training:

spatts said:

The best way to get to 10% is to take your time, eat right, and put on muscle. Muscle burns more cals 24/7, and by carb cycling you can fuel your training while also cutting the fat. In other words, instead of dropping fat to reach 10%, increase your muscle mass to reach 10% (while keeping your fat in check). Make sense? Now you see why AS/AAS is so popular...gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time is HARD work.

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In other words, I couldn't agree more.

quoting yourself from another post is not cool.

next thing is you will be quoting yourself in your signature.

you are out of control.

I thought about this post on the way home and I thought -- well I agree but with Cornholio -- sometimes there is a catch. I racked my brain and said -- yeah..he is right but if I get home and post -- RIGHT....I agree and that is what I had been trying to do -- I figured hmmm...I know he is gonna have something incredibly cerebral and thought provoking to say.

THEN I THOUGHT -- but WAIT...Spatts had something very relative to this.

newgirl said:

I thought about this post on the way home and I thought -- well I agree but with Cornholio -- sometimes there is a catch. I racked my brain and said -- yeah..he is right but if I get home and post -- RIGHT....I agree and that is what I had been trying to do -- I figured hmmm...I know he is gonna have something incredibly cerebral and thought provoking to say.

THEN I THOUGHT -- but WAIT...Spatts had something very relative to this.

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LMAO....no catch.....this time.



lololol

..and spatts NEVER jokes around.



Seriously, unless you're a hard gainer, there's more than one way to change the ratios in your composition.