It's so unfair - when you diet you lose muscle, as well as fat but when you overeat all you put on is fat!
So the easiest way to gain a load of flab is to be in a continual yoyo cycle of dieting and putting the weight back on again.
"Your body will respond to the shortage of calories by burning fat, of course, but it will burn an almost equal amount of protein from your muscle fibers. If you lose 20 pounds by cutting calories, for example, about 8 of those pounds will come from muscle. If you regain the weight and diet again, you will lose more muscle."
Tom Valeo
The only thing which stops the rot is to change your habits for good - eat moderately and healthily for the rest of your life and move your body as much as you can.
If you can face exercises to build up your muscles so much the better but anything is better than sitting on the couch letting your muscles degenerate into old age - this starts around the age of 30 and nothing can stop it except you by getting yourself moving.
Floridian: Put some muscle behind your diet
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Lifestyle change really is the only way to go. I think that too many people look at 'diets' as a short term, quick fix approach to their problem of extra weight. In order to really change, you have to make some serious long-term lifestyle changes.
Posted by: Lifetime Fitness | April 19, 2007 at 02:53 PM