Why do you need to avoid muscle loss while on a weight management programme?

The reason that this is bad news is simple; you only want to lose fat!

And since your muscles are the most efficient fat burning machinery in your body, why would you want to lose, or shrink or worse still damage them.

Furthermore, your heart happens to be a pretty important muscle in your body, and it could also be on the menu too during a crash diet.

Following several weeks of this type of diet, you will almost certainly “hit the wall” and weight loss will become more and more difficult to achieve.

One of the reasons for this is that your lean body mass is now considerably reduced, meaning that your basal metabolic requirements (the energy required to simply make you tick over) is now correspondingly reduced.

Therefore the body has successfully adapted itself to require fewer calories, thereby allowing it to maintain its stores of fat, and avoid potential starvation for longer.

So all you ladies out there who are “scared to death” of gaining any muscle because you think it’s “unladylike” or ungainly start to think again.

As well as making you an efficient fat burning machine and giving you much more vitality and energy to carry over to your daily life it will also help to stave off the effects of osteoarthritis in later life and surely that’s worth thinking about isn’t it?

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