How To Know If You Are Losing Fat Or Muscle?
Let’s dive straight in..
Look, If your goal is losing fat and getting more toned you MUST understand the difference between weight loss to fat loss and what you can do to make sure you are losing fat and not muscle.
Unfortunately, most women just get smaller instead of leaner when they try to lose weight.
And this is not what you are trying to do, right?
Here is what you should know – In order to make sure you are keeping as much of your hard-earned muscle as possible (which is what giving you the “toned” and athletic look you are after) you must maintain your strength.
While pictures and measurements sure help, the main thing you should be focused on is to give your muscles a “reason to stick around”.
Therefore, if you constantly focus on heavy lifting (instead of doing hours upon hours of cardio), Your body will shift his efforts to make sure your muscles stay and get fueled.
This helps it recover and grow.
And that deficit created by a lower calorie intake is made almost PURELY by body fat.
Basically put, if you are losing weight and getting weaker – you are probably losing a lot of muscle mass. On the other hand, If you keep your strength – you keep your muscle –
Instead of steadily losing muscle along with the fat, which results in you appearing smaller than you look.
Hope you learned something new 🙂
