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Fat is lost in any diet where your calorie intake is lower than calorie
expenditure. However, these "rapid weight loss" diets and low-energy diets will
often result in a muscle loss in addition to the fat burned. It is estimated that the maximum
fat a typical human body can burn in any one week is around 2 pounds. This means that any
weight loss over and above 2 lbs in a week could be muscle or water!
And you have to be careful, as rapid weight loss, or crash dieting, can slow down your metabolism. If you
don't eat enough food, your ancient survival instincts take over and your body enters
"starvation mode". In starvation mode, the metabolic rate slows to conserve energy, the speed at
which weight is lost is reduced, ultimately, less fat is burned
using rapid weight loss or crash dieting methods.
So what does muscle burn instead of fat burn mean... The body loses muscle
during the crash phase, which gives you less muscle to burn the calories, the opposite is the
more muscle you keep, the more calories are burned. Rapid weight loss, or crash dieting, therefore delivers the double whammy of a drop in
metabolic weight, and a drop in calorie burning muscle tissue.
This is the reason why so many dieters who rely upon fad diets regain weight
quickly after losing it. The only safe reliable and long term way to reduce weight is to use
a properly designed and developed weight loss plan, one that has been tried and tested, and
to use it longterm.
A gradual reduction in calories with a change of lifestyle, will help maintain
muscle tissue, help to burn mainly fat, and will allow you to maintain a healthy lower weight
in the future.
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