Understanding and Preventing Muscle Loss During a Weight Loss Program

You say your goal is to lose weight.

But is that what you really want?

If you want to lose that big fat tummy and the bulging love handles or the double chin, you want to lose fat, not just weight.

You want to lose the extra fat and build a healthy body with strong muscles. As long as you create a calorie deficit – you lose weight. We have already covered the science behind fat loss and calorie deficits in our previous article. But the problem is that weight loss does not equal fat loss. Some of that lost weight is just water loss and some of it is, sadly, your precious muscle.

The upside is that there are many ways to minimise the muscle loss while maximising the fat burn...Read More...