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Originally Posted by EasyRhino
I think the two confounding issues are:
1) The deficit math of 3500 cals works for fat. I don't know how many calories are provided if you're cannibalizing muscle? I haven't seen that number published anywhere
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Muscle tissue has somewhere between 600-1000 calories per pound. Muscle is not all protein, but a lot of water, too, and fat. That's why a 1 lb lean bison steak is only 600kcal (a fattier strip steak is about 950).
So.... if your diet was going "all wrong", you could be in a deficit of a mere 1000 calories and lose 1 whole pound of muscle and almost no fat. Good for the scale but not for the mirror or tape measure.
If my metabolic biology is whack, please let me know.
Andrea