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Originally Posted by Big Fat Rooster
I agree with that ReeseJimi.
And I hate outright disagreeing with another posters post, but I totally disagree with your Mossy, sorry, but I find it not factual. I clicked the link and disagree with that guy also.
I posted above that I have lost 73 lbs and I have. 35 lbs of it in the past 5 months. I am 74. I am supposed to have flabby loose sagging skin anyway. But I don't. At first my gut sagged and looked horrible, but no worse than looking pregnant with triplets and a month overdue. And I am a guy not a gal. But it has tightened up and the skin is staying up with my weight loss, especially since I have started losing other places than my beer-belly paunch, which is 95% gone and you can bet anything you want to that was all fat, not muscle loss. Hard exercise burns a lot of fat. The body does not use up muscle to burn for energy if it has fat reserves. I found it very difficult the guy could claim such. The body will burn muscle if you go into very strict dieting and do not exercise, the body will get rid of that it sees it does not need. If one is not exercising then muscle would be burned. But if one is doing hard exercise and on a very calorie restrictive diet they will both burn fat AND build muscle.
At your weight and age I would not worry about it at all. At my age and weight I sure am not worrying about it, and like I said, I am 74. Experience talking here.
Take vitamins and supplements, and you probably do not need it at your age, but you can put on a quality skin cream to help the skin also.
Nothing to do with your problem here Happiest Mom, but in the link from above which I clicked a woman was saying she weighed 105 lbs when she got pregnant and gained 87 lbs. WOW !! My wife had six children and only gained about 20 lbs each time and returned to normal in about 3 months. Some women use being pregnant as an excuse to eat like a cow and they suffer for it afterwards. I completely discounted her story for one because it is so atypical and second everyones skin does not tighten up at the same speed. And I know there are some unfortunates whose skin does not shrink, or not near what is needed. You will not know until you have lost the weight and given it some time to shrink.
Best of luck to you and yours.
Sorry Mossy, but I could not let that post stand. And I would suggest you do some more research on that issue.
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Where did you form this opinion from? I'm curious because it sounds anecdotal.
Studies exist to support what Mossy is saying. I'm over simplifying this, but decreased caloric intake does cause a decrease in muscle mass. Now I'm not going to give exact numbers because I don't know them. Also the kind of calories matter too, such as protein vs carbs in terms of muscle preservation.
People that have a decreased intake due to just decreased appetite are at risk for muscle wasting. Under your idea, if those people has some fat to lose, they'd lose that first, and that is simple not true. While they will lose fat, they will also lose muscle mass.
Those that go on "diets" and decrease their over all caloric intake are absolutely at risk for muscle wasting as well. Regardless of how much fat they have to lose.
You said the hard exercise burns fat, but do you not realize that while exercising you are also working to maintain and even build muscle mass?
Patients in the hospital that are immobile and have a decreased intake are a great risk for losing muscle mass, because their inactivity compounds their decreased caloric intake.
http://advances.nutrition.org/content/3/2/119.full
There is one journal article but I'm sure if you looked you would find many more.
I'm not saying a healthy, young adult is going to waste away if on a diet, but there will absolutely be a loss of muscle mass.
I'm sorry but saying the body doesn't have muscle loss during weight loss based on your assumption of your own situation is not really a good place to base an opinion. I can't say to Mossy's link or not, but I don't need to read it. There are plenty of scientific papers supporting that muscle loss occurs.
I'm not going to say those exact numbers are correct, but the overall theory is.