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Metabolic damage is mostly a myth. Fat, muscle, and activity burn calories. If you lose weight you’re probably burning fewer calories unless you replace it wi
by CooCooCaCha 3y ago
Metabolic damage is mostly a myth.
Fat, muscle, and activity burn calories.
If you lose weight you’re probably burning fewer calories unless you replace it with muscle.
Activity levels also vary over our lives. We tend to be more active when we’re younger.
- paulpauper 3y agoan extra 10 pounds of muscle, which is average for someone who has never trained, maybe burns only 100 extra calories. The problem also is that muscle hypertrophy also entails gaining some fat too.
- CooCooCaCha 3y agoDepends on how you bulk. You’ll gain some fat sure, but you can limit this by eating healthier and not too much over your caloric needs. But my point is, if someone loses a bunch of fat their bmr is going to take a hit. Could be pretty significant on the order of hundreds of calories a day.
- liamwire 3y ago100 kcal is ~0.5 kg of fat per month, or 6 kg per year. Read that again. Six kilograms, per year. Every year. Given a person consuming near their total daily energy expenditure, that’s the difference between losing almost 20 kg since the start of COVID, and gaining 20 kg. Small changes over time compound in unintuitive ways, which is all the more reason not to dismiss them so flippantly.
- paulpauper 3y agoBut bodybuilders gain a lot of fat offseason even despite having lots of muscle mass.
- agos 3y agobodybuilders are playing a completely different game from the person with 10 pound of muscle
- faeriechangling 3y agoI have a history of scale measurements with body fat shooting down and muscle mass going up that would disagree. If I'm doing muscle hypertrophy, I'm burning more calories, but I'm not necessarily eating more. You might need to put on some fat to gain muscle EFFICIENTLY, but it's not a requirement for putting muscle on at all.
- F-W-M 3y agoPutting on muscle surely takes way more energy than maintaining it.
- CooCooCaCha 3y agoLifting weights actually burns very few calories.
- glonq 3y agoI applied CICO to lose weight and keep it off. It's sad to see what nonsense (like "metabolic damage") people will invent to justify failing at weight loss (or worse, never even attempting weight loss).