How long will I be losing weight before I gain weight and muscle mass?

Alright, the situation. For several months prior, my program consisted of muscle endurance and toning, which got me down to a satisfying 10% body fat. About a month ago, I started a program dedicated to size and strength.

Thanks to great advice, it has been working and my strength has increased, but I am losing weight. I am at the lowest I have been in a long while. I consume about 5 or 6 meals a day, intake about 35-50 grams of protein at each sitting.

Why am I losing weight and do I need to change anything? Asked by TheMaz 51 months ago Similar questions: long losing weight gain muscle mass Health > Fitness & Diet.

Similar questions: long losing weight gain muscle mass.

Basically, if you actually have muscles, you have to feed them - a lot. My questions would revolve around how much aerobic exercise you are performing, how much anaerobic exercise you are performing and how many calories you are taking in. Look at this paragraph and a half: healthfitness.com.au/articles/weights/we... When aerobic exercise is performed your body burns both carbohydrate and fat.

But when you increase the aerobic/cardio intensity your body also switches to burning more carbohydrates and less bodyfat proportionately. If not enough carbohydrates are consumed your body will switch to making carbohydrates from protein. That is called catabolism and results in losing muscle mass, which is the exact opposite of what you should be aiming for.

Therefore, if you are already on a low calorie diet and you add aerobic exercise, you will further accelerate this catastrophe. But wait, you say, wouldn't that lead to more weight loss and thus quicker and faster results? While this may look good from a bathroom scale perspective, I assure you that this is detrimental to your ability to achieve permanent weight loss.And....................... Eating extra protein will not counteract this destruction because total dietary energy must be first increased to meet the body's energy needs.

Fat, be in dietary or bodyfat, will not stop this muscle wasting because some tissues such as the brain need energy as glucose. While amino acids, which come from muscle protein can be metabolised to produce glucose, fats cannot. As a consequence, a person with more than adequate fat stores may suffer loss of muscle and other tissue if the diet is too restricted in calories.

The primary exercise prescription for those wanting permanent weight loss must be weight training or resistance training or strength training. Finally........................... I can assure you that it's not easy to gain lean muscle. Losing bodyfat is the easy bit.

Gaining muscle is the hard part. And the clincher...................... Surveys from the Australian Bureau of Statistics* have confirmed this. They discovered that men with body mass index (BMI) see our calculator) in the acceptable range reported having the largest intakes of energy as well as most vitamins and minerals.

Conversely obese males reported the smallest intakes of energy. Wow, how's that for radical thinking! So I know you love to eat, everybody does?

Still not convinced? That's the reason 100 kg bodybuilders eat two chickens, one kilo of rice, twenty egg whites and seven rolls plus 2 protein shakes and that's just his desert, yet they're still leaner that you and even me. Clearly, muscle mass is proportional to metabolic rate.

The more active muscle you have the more calories you burn throughout the day. We've all heard of metabolism and metabolic rate.(This is the energy expenditure that the body undergoes continuously, even at rest. This energy is burned in order to keep your body functioning normally.) With that usually comes the misguided thinking that we were just born with a slow metabolism.

When you increase muscle mass you increase metabolism. Since most of our day is spent at rest, on the couch or at a desk, by simply having more muscle, literally on you, you burn more calories compared to your less muscular self. More muscle, more calories burned.

It's as simple as that. When I was a boy - 20-21 and listing 1.5 hours a day and also running 10-12 miles a day, I could eat as much as I wanted and anything I wanted.My muscles needed food and if I didn't eat enough, I would quickly lose weight. I'd say, well, you need to eat more to feed your muscle mass.

Sources: healthfitness.com.au/articles/weights/we... .

Weight is equal to calories in vs calories out. You may need to increase the number of calories per meal. Are you training for shape, strength or athletic performance?

If you are still gaining in strength, are you also doing any endurance work? This should not go over 20 minutes unless you are training for an endurance event. While adding calories to you meals, try not to make them empty calories such as sugar and white foods (rice, potatoes etc.) Eat whole eggs, peanut and other nut butters, use coconut oil for cooking and salads along with good olive oil.

Try this shake: pasteurized raw eggs, malted milk powder, bananas, coconut milk, your favorite protein / energy shake powder (plain or vanilla), almond milk, ground flax seeds, ice water added to the thickness you like. Blend well and enjoy..

Metabolism Has Been Boosted You are losing weight because in gaining muscle you have boosted your metabolism to the tune of about 50 calories per pound of muscle gained. Say you have gained 10 pounds of muscle... that will burn an extra 500 calories per day that you need to take in just to stay in balance. You are buring more calories just laying around doing nothing so you have to eat more calories and boost your protein intake to a total of about 1 gram per pound of body weight or more.

I don’t think you should get more than 50 grams at any sitting and with 2.5 hours between sittings. Large doses of protein are hard on the kidneys and of course require much water to handle... drink more pure water (not tap). Since muscle building and wasting is in a constant flux you can tip the scales further in your favor by taking in a protein before bed that digests slowly (chicken meat).

Then something that is fast to enter your blood as soon as you wake like whey protein in skim milk. Some bodybuilds set their alarm clocks for the middle of their sleep cycle and wake to take in 3000 mg (or more) Branch Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs) and I do belive this has a major impact on how much muscle you can retain. You have to feed muscle or it will waste you away.... eat more to stablize your weight.

Never go under 10% body fat as this can be dangerous and cause problems breathing (I do not know why). You should have a dose of protein (acutally amino acids when broken down) when you are weight training so it is available to re-build instantly and for the hour or two immediatly after your workout. Chicken takes 60 minutes for aminos to start entering your blood, red meats 90 mintes, whey or casein about 22 minutes and because BCAA are already pre-digested if you take them on an empty stomach with plenty of water probably less than 10 minutes.

Timing is everything.... Sources: Personal knowledge .

Calories in vs calories out When all is said and done it is still calories in versus calories out. Perhaps you need to slow down your exercise program. Only work out 3 days and just do fun things that get you off your rear the other days.

Are you doing cardio one day and weights the next...I hope? If you are burning more calories than you are taking in, you will lose weight. Drink more shakes...mmmm Congratulations on your success so far!

Sources: jillianmichaels.com .

Be Careful Be Careful with your program. I assume that you are a male and if so the recommended body fat percentage is 15%. Protein supplements can interfere with your body's ability to digest regular protein.

Strength should start to increase in a couple of weeks, but bulk will take a few months. Something is wrong and you should consider seeing a doctor and a trainer in that order and stop exercising until then.

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I have been put on Lipitor and was asked shortly after by the doctor if I noticed weight gain or muscle loss. Should I?

I'm 38 and ,I nurse a two year old and I tried several diet and instead of losing I gain several pounds.

My questions would revolve around how much aerobic exercise you are performing, how much anaerobic exercise you are performing and how many calories you are taking in. Look at this paragraph and a half: http://healthfitness.com.au/articles/weights/weightloss.html When aerobic exercise is performed your body burns both carbohydrate and fat. But when you increase the aerobic/cardio intensity your body also switches to burning more carbohydrates and less bodyfat proportionately.

If not enough carbohydrates are consumed your body will switch to making carbohydrates from protein. That is called catabolism and results in losing muscle mass, which is the exact opposite of what you should be aiming for. Therefore, if you are already on a low calorie diet and you add aerobic exercise, you will further accelerate this catastrophe.

But wait, you say, wouldn't that lead to more weight loss and thus quicker and faster results? While this may look good from a bathroom scale perspective, I assure ... more.

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