http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/how-to-lose-fat-without-losing-muscle/

This gives a great overview of everything you can do to keep your muscle while we all lose our fat. Keep up the great work everyone.

Very interesting!

thanks very informative! I have a book called burn the fat, feed the muscle that is based on some of the same principles. interesting read!

Thanks for the article

I have read that guys website articles that wrote the feed the muscle book. Very interesting stuff.

Amen!! I'm glad someone wrote a good article about how "fat loss" and "weight loss" are two separate things. I can pass on working out for a month, keep about the same maintenance calories, but still lose weight, but that weight will be almost all muscle. My body would think that I don't need it anymore and it would eventually go away.

Ex:

I've pretty much always lifted weights since about my junior year of high school. A couple of years ago I tore my bicep and it had to be surgically reattached. After the surgery, I had to be in a cast for a month and a half while the muscle grafted and healed back to my forearm bone. During this month and a half, I just sat around and did basically nothing. No lifting, no housework, no yard work, not even walking. I embraced it as a vacation and I vacationed with abandon. This was before sleeve, so I ate anything and everything I wanted in addition to not being physically active for a month and a half. A couple days after my cast was removed, I went back to the gym to do some lower body work. While I was there I weighed myself and I had lost 11 pounds while sitting around doing nothing and eating like a pig for over a month. That weight I lost was all muscle. So weight loss isn't always the perfect thing. I'm sure I gained fat during this time, but I lost more weight in muscle than I gained in fat.....to the tune of around 11 pounds.

Great article that clarifies and sheds some light on the subject of "weight loss". Thanks!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the article, but just do not agree with the closing statements of dirty versus clean dieting being irrelevant to changing body composition. What is the author smoking? Otherwise, I found myself in agreement with a vast majority of it and even picked up a few very good ideas for improving strength while in a calorie deficit.

Thanks for sharing!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the article, but just do not agree with the closing statements of dirty versus clean dieting being irrelevant to changing body composition. What is the author smoking? Otherwise, I found myself in agreement with a vast majority of it and even picked up a few very good ideas for improving strength while in a calorie deficit.

There's a whole different school of thought on a "calorie is a calorie". Those who can somehow justify eating "X" amount of calories and only look at calories, not any other nutrients. I choose to not be on that side and pay attention to Protein, carbs, fats, etc to make sure I'm fueling my body the best I can vs the other stuff.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lustig-md/sugar-toxic_b_2759564.html

http://home.trainingpeaks.com/articles/nutrition/a-calorie-is-not-a-calorie.aspx

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the article, but just do not agree with the closing statements of dirty versus clean dieting being irrelevant to changing body composition. What is the author smoking? Otherwise, I found myself in agreement with a vast majority of it and even picked up a few very good ideas for improving strength while in a calorie deficit.

Yeah, that seems to be a bit of a controversy at times. I think some people.....ectomorphs.......can and almost have to eat this way (dirty), to put on mass. Maybe that's kind of what he (author) was referring to, but he needs to realize that not all people are ectomorphs, in fact most are not. I knew guys like this in high school.....they lifted a lot, skinny as a rail and until they pretty much ate everything in sight, they couldn't get bigger/stronger. Even when they ate everything and anything, they still had trouble gaining weight because their metabolisms were so revved up and/or they were very active. Those kind of people frustrate me, but it's not their fault I suppose. Anyway, I think people that are like this are typically young (teens to maybe early 20s) and are setting themselves up for weight gain down the road when their metabolism slows and they are used to those bad eating habits.