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Weight Loss Diets
Anyone who has dieted knows how easy it is to lose weight, but the difficulty is not to gain weight. Despite all these miraculous results as mentioned in TV commercials and advertising, less than 10% of people who have been on a diet not to get fat have followed a weight loss program. So what is it that does not work with all these weight loss systems?
Weight loss diets that deal only to reduce caloric intake, not including some type of physical activity, make the individual a disservice because 25% of that weight loss may be muscle mass.
Although the scales weigh in which we stated that we have lost weight, maybe the percentages of body (i.e. the% of fat to total weight in relation to the% of muscle mass) have even worse because it has lost muscle mass.
Since the basal metabolic rate (BMR) is directly related to the amount of muscle you have in the body, muscle mass is lost if the BMR will be slower, so they burn fewer calories. In short, if you lose muscle you have a good chance of getting fat again.
The key to not to fatten the long term is to realize the importance of maintaining or increasing muscle fiber body. By building muscle you increase the BMR, which offers many more possibilities to stay at that weight over time.
Since the RMB is between 60 and 70% of daily energy consumption, even a modest increase of BMR can positively alter the percentages of the body. Although there are other factors such as age and genetics also determines the BMR, the percentage of muscle mass is a factor that should not be overlooked.
Going up the BMR, will burn more calories during all activities, even when sitting, lying and sleeping. Every 400 grams of muscle mass that is added to the system consumes 35 calories per day or, which is the same between 1.2 and 1.6 kg of fat per year.