DonFerrari said:
Because your body needs fat more than it need muscle, first because fat is used to produce a lot of hormones and second because fat is the last thing your body wants to use since it is the last reserve to keep you alive (besides cushioning your inners and keep your heat). So for you to have a good loss of fat you need to exercise to keep muscle (basically you need to force your body to keep the muscle) and accept a steady but slow loss, 2 weeks of starvation won't do that. Also muscle burn calories while fat doesn't need calories to keep itself, so body burn muscle so it gains energy from muscle plus will help you need less energy. Besides other mechanism to reduce your metabolism when you reduce your intake (thus why a good program will have you slowly but progressively cutting calories and adding exercise so your body doesn't have a bid impact and adapt fast). |
But... if the fat is the last reserve to keep you alive, isn't that the time, when you're not eating food, that it's there for? It just doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I just need to study it a bit more.