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If a person is obese or morbidly obese, losing weight is the number one priority to increase overall health, lifespan, quality of life, etc etc. Losing a bit o
by testing22321 1y ago
If a person is obese or morbidly obese, losing weight is the number one priority to increase overall health, lifespan, quality of life, etc etc.
Losing a bit of lean muscle mass along the way is not important compared to the huge health gains of losing the weight.
- strken 1y agoI agree that losing body fat is the number one priority, but I wish the research would focus on that rather than the number on the scale. Losing a bit of lean muscle mass along the way is important for its own sake, and also because it's a confounding variable for what I actually want to know, which is how much fat (not weight) a person lost.
- testing22321 1y agoWhy does it matter? When it comes to long term health outcomes, losing weight is the only thing that matters.