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COACH_TANYA
3/13/08 11:28 A
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When you spend a great deal of time counting calories in and restricting and then over exercising to increase those burned - you are in an unheathy pattern. Undereating and over exercising causes your body to break down muscle and NOT decreasing fat reserves.
Weight loss and gain is based on a cumulative deficit or increase and not a day to day. When your body is in starvation mode from not having enough energy supplied then fat reserves are stored that much faster. When you look at an anorexic what is missing is all the muscle and not the fat because the muscle gets used for the bodies essential energy and the fat sticks around as long as possible.
You would do so much better and look so much better if you ate your bodies recommended calories for growth and repair and exercised 30-45 minutes a day for health and did strength training to sculpt your body. Your weight might go up because muscle weighs less then fat but your percentage of body fat will go down because you body no longer would need to store it.
I really wish there was a way that we could help you and others understand that the number on the scale doesn't tell you what your body composition is and you can lose 10 pounds of muscle and actually have a higher percentage of body fat then if you gained 5 pounds of muscle.
Coach Tanya
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| That depends on how that 1,000 calorie-deficit has been happening. Have you been over-exercising or starving yourself? I'm not sure if I can see another option...
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| My body is used to a defecit of about 1000 calories a day. If I have a 500 calorie deficit will this make me gain weight?
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