Sat, Sep-25-04, 07:53
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Mad Scientist
Posts: 4,402
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Plan: Healthy eating/lifestyle
Stats: 156/115/115
BF:
Progress: 100%
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Lift, I have kind of a tough question for ya!
I've always refused to go below 1000-1200 calories b/c they say it slows down metabolism, catabolizes muscle, blah, blah, blah....
Anyway, after going to my dentist the other day, I went below 1,000 calories b/c I couldn't eat, but I made sure to keep my protein high with cottage cheese and protein shakes. So basically what I was low on was carbs and fat. I lost .4 lb the following morning. Yesterday, I was about 1,000 calories plus 324 calories of fish oil (this was due to circumstances out of my control) and I'm down another .4 lbs. I'm totally happy but.....
The question is, given my inability to lose weight on normal calories, did I lose fat or muscle? I'm wondering maybe if I'm keeping calories too high based on a slow metabolism. If I kept calories around 1,000 calories (I'd only be able to do it on LC days for obvious reasons) but lost less than 1 lb/week, I wouldn't be losing muscle, would I? Obviously, I don't want to sacrifice my muscle.
I'm confused b/c I'm not sure that my metabolism conforms to the "average" person.
Wanda
Last edited by wcollier : Sat, Sep-25-04 at 10:29.
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