When you lose weight, unfortunately you not only lose fat but you lose muscle as well. Personally, I never want to lose my hard earned muscle since its so hard to put on muscle. Will Brink made the quote below and I had to post it since it is so significant.
"When you lose weight, it can be muscle, water, bone, and fat. Most people focus exclusively on weight loss, and go about dieting and exercising—assuming they exercise at all—to lose weight. In that process, they often end up simply a thinner version of their former flabby selves. Sometimes, they even end up with a higher bodyfat percentage after they lose weight, as most of what they lost was muscle! Using weight loss as the only measure of success is a huge mistake!"
Some reasons why you don't want to lose muscle:
1. As a person adds muscle, her/his metabolic rate increases slightly.
2. Fat takes up more space than muscle; a five pound pile of fat will take up more space (volume) than a five pound pile of muscle
3. When you are resting your muscles (lean mass) consume more than 25% of your energy than fat.
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