The complicated answer is it depends. I have seen a few formula thrown around, I have been looking into one myself but at the end of the day its genetics first, protein and lifting 2nd, and the extreme of activity combining with it.
A few quick things to note is that generally the higher amount of fat, the less muscle you are likely to lose.
The more you refeed and break properly, the less muscle you will lose.
The more you adjust intake for activity level, the less muscle you will lose.
Obviously it gets a lot more complicated than this, but "starvation response" isn't a real thing, it is a tagline for halting ones metabolism. This can be done in a million different ways but the end result isn't usually the same.
Since you have the package I highly recommend reading MRM, if for nothing more than for what NOT to do and how the metabolism can slow down, etc.
|