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Originally Posted by myold88
I do believe it and so far it is working- not a beer all week and I plan to keep it that way....
As they heard the guy saying as he fell off the 10 story buiding:
"so far so good, so far so good". lol.
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I think there is a misunderstanding here lol. I was thinking about the statement as a whole, if you don't eat and only drink you will be losing weight but not fat, your body will be deprived of nutrients needed to sustain life so it will canobolize itself. It is much easier for the body to break down muscle for energy than fat. So inturn as your muscle mass decreases your metabolism slows down, normally this would result in fat gain because your body will use the smallest amount of cals for survival and store the rest as fat as it's in a panic. But you are not eating so there is nothing to store so your body then turns to burning the fat because that's all thats left but by this time you are in a pretty bad state. Now if you want to be skin and bones,fragile, sickly and living life in that manner go for it. This is the reason why I emphasize protein intake, when you are on a calorie defficit and especially if you exercise the muscle will be first to go so you must eat protein to preserve the muscle, this is also why water is so important, muscle is made up mostly of protein and water, if your body is deprived of them it has to get it somewhere. Also it takes more cals to sustain muscle than fat so if you do cardio to help burn fat and build muscle by weight training the results are far greater, your burning fat doing cardio and building muscle by weight trainning so even when you are at rest your body is still burnning cals, this is why weight trainning or resistance trainning should always be combined with cardio BUT you must eat to provide energy so you eat healthy foods that the body can burn for fuel rather than ones the body stores as fat.