The Following is an Excerpt from
http://www.healthrecipes.com/muscle.htmYou can read the full article at that website
Note: This site deals with how to BUILD muscle, we want to do the oppostite
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So, according to Parillo, aerobics can actually enhance recovery from weight training and increase muscular growth by developing the circulatory pathways that provide nourishment to the muscles. Cardiovascular training is important for fat burning, for good health and for muscle-building.
Losing muscle has more to do with inadequate diet than with excessive aerobics. If you suspect you are losing muscle there are four likely causes:
1. You are not eating enough protein. Protein is the only nutrient that is actually used to build muscle. To stay anabolic you must eat five to six protein containing meals. Each meal should be spaced out approximately three hours apart. Research has proven that if you are physically active, you need a minimum of .8 grams to 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight.
2. Your carbohydrates are too low. Low carb diets are often used for fat loss, but it is a mistake to cut your carbs too drastically. Carbohydrates are protein-sparing, so even if you are eating large amounts of protein, you can still lose muscle if you your carbs are too low.
3. You are not eating enough calories to support muscle growth. This is the most common cause of muscle loss. When your calories are too low, your body goes into "starvation mode." Your metabolism slows down and your body actually burns muscle tissue to conserve energy. Muscle is metabolically active tissue, requiring a great deal of caloric energy just to maintain it. That's why your body will shed muscle if it thinks you are starving.
4. You are not training with weights. It is a common misconception that if you want to lose weight, you should start with cardio only and add the weights later - another big mistake! It is the weight training that keeps you from losing muscle while you are dieting.
So the following seems to be a reasonable conclusion for the LOSS of muscle mass while simultaneously losing fat.
Vegan diet with little to no fat, carbohydrates, and zero protien. (No Animal Products)
Minimilistic Caloric Intake.
No Sugars.
No weight training.
Increased Cardiovascular activity to lose fat.
This seems to me to be the fastest way to lose both muscle mass and fat.
Further Evidence and safety information that verifies these conclusions are found at the following website:
http://www.trans-health.com/displayarticle.php?aid=22This site wants to INCREASE Body Fat and DECREASE Muscle Mass
With the Following Excerpt taken from that site:
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Protein intake got cut way down. Protein intake while dieting is important in retaining lean body mass (LBM), aka muscle. When it diminishes, there is an increased likelihood of muscle catabolism (breaking-down).
Carb intake went up and fat intake went down. At this point we had the classic late 80s/early 90s diet. Which, as people learned through experience, ate through LBM like wildfire, especially when combined with...
Endurance cardio. Lots. Low-intensity endurance cardio is all about catabolism. Ever notice that marathon runners look like dried out string beans, while sprinters look like lean, healthy race horses? Not accidental. Part of it is a result of self-selection of body types, but a lot of it has to do with training. And low-intensity endurance cardio is the express bus to Catabolism City. Boring as hell, unfortunately, but Raverdyke gamely hopped on the stationary bike with a good book for 30-60 minutes, 4 times a week.
We experimented with weight training, but eventually just discontinued it. She felt that it was making her retain too much muscle. I was torn on the issue because I knew that weight training helped a lot with weight loss, but I also knew that she had enough circulating androgens that hypertrophy remained a possibility, even with a workout protocol that was designed to avoid mass gain. I suggested training legs alone, because she wanted to retain much of the muscle on her legs, but that also fell by the wayside as pure size loss became the primary objective.
Note that the Carbohydrates went up because the person on this diet was a MtF TG who was a bodybuilder and had 2% bodyfat so she wanted to INCREASE her bodyfat and DECREASE her muscle mass.
I want to DECREASE Both therefore because
1. I am too fat .... period
2. I want to lose muscle mass
Which means both my protiens AND carbs must be virtually eliminated.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a dangerous diet to pursue for extended periods of time. The site above recommends 5 days on the diet with EXTREMELY low (as low as 800) calories per day followed by a 2 day maintentence eating period where you bump your caloric intake to 2,000. Then continue repeating this cycle until you have reached your goals. That way your body does not convince itself that it's starving and start hording calories.
Comments? Concerns? Different points of View?
So far my conclusions are as follows:
I am EXHAUSTED ALL the time. But that might be due to depression and a lot of charged emotions. I get light headed when I stand up to fast. I have only been on it for one cycle (7 days) 5 on the diet, 2 days mainentence eating. My body is adjusting, it was just yesterday that I actually had the energy to go for a good areobic walk.
Jessica
