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Originally Posted by missjane
I just don't know how you could be gaining LBM on such a caloric deficit????
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This is my theory:
I think it's because my muscles atropied when I stopped moving. Last year I did Turbulence Training for about 12 weeks, then REPAIR, then OneBigMeal, all with some bodyweight and dumbbells, and I wasn't muscled, but I did have some umm tone (I know you all hate that word)... anyway, I had some strength to my body.
Then from Dec 10 to May 1, I did really nothing. My butt got wide, my thighs got weak going up and down stairs, my arms got weak, my back got weak.... first I lost about 5 lbs the first month on meds, then, eating 'at maintenance' I gained about 5 lbs. I didn't/couldn't get upstair to the scale, but first my pants got loose and then they got back to how they had been or a bit tighter. That may have been muscle turning into fat, losing some fat, and then gaining back some fat instead of the lost muscle-tone. So it makes some sense to me, not that I gained big biceps or anything, but just that the general muscles in my body, the past 8 weeks, have regained their robustness.
But at some point, since I don't tend to gain muscle easily, at some point the water retention should be at its max, and my caloric deficit and inches lost should turn into pounds lost too... I would even imagine that the inch lost would start to slow down and the fat pounds lost should be faster, since it's easier to lose fat than gain muscle...
But when? 8 weeks? 12 weeks? I find it very curious that even on 1200 cal average the scale doesn't move.
leighpeele.com has a terrific blog on this topic today or yesterday... but she doesn't address when the balance starts moving the scale down faster than the muscle build.
MissJane,
You burst the bubble on Karla's idea that I'm building muscle, since my deficit is probably way too low, even if I am eating such great protein.