Britta Bear
New member
My pleasure, really. And yes, I know I still owe you an email. My brain is stiff today. Once it loosens up, I will reply.
No worries about the email...
And I think both of you have enough rep.
Journey, Not A Destination
- Thread starter Steve
- Start date
No worries about the email...
And I think both of you have enough rep.
Happychubette
Banned
I've told you before but I'm telling you again. The best question you ever asked me was 'how do I know I'm not in a deficit'? I'm glad the agonizing and wondering whether its working or not is over. You freed my mind with that.
epic - that's a word that is often used to describe those bodice ripping hysterical - i mean historical romance novels.. '
mmmm - well if you grew long flowing locks of hair you would certainly have the body for the cover art
'mmmm - well if you grew long flowing locks of hair you would certainly have the body for the cover art
epic - that's a word that is often used to describe those bodice ripping hysterical - i mean historical romance novels..
mmmm - well if you grew long flowing locks of hair you would certainly have the body for the cover art
Not anymore.
I feel like I am melting away already. It is such a mind game with me when dieting down. I hate losing size!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
you say that like it's a bad thing
That could be taken the wrong way... I've seen some horribly illustrated romance novels. Well, I guess I've never seen an improperly buff guy on the cover, but still!
For some reason that reminds me of the 197x publishing of the Lord of the Rings... it was done by a romance artist and looked ridiculous, everyone was all buff and crazy looking.
For some reason that reminds me of the 197x publishing of the Lord of the Rings... it was done by a romance artist and looked ridiculous, everyone was all buff and crazy looking.
kezzypear
New member
Hi Steve!
I hope you are good today, it does feel odd for a WLFer to be not happy about loosing!
It'll be worth it though, getting closer to the body shape you want!
Well, I am actually roaming your diary to ask you a question (as lots of people seem to do in your diary!) Please correct me if I have misunderstood, or point me in the right direction if you have already explained this!
You, and others, have said, that if you are loosing WEIGHT, esp if it is too quickly, or you are not doing weights, your body will utilise muscle tissue preferentially over fat as an extra energy source when you are in a deficit. OK. But my question is WHY! That might be a very silly question! BUT my point it, the physiological and evolutionary FUNCTION of fat is as an energy source when times are hard. Muscle is not, it has a very important purpose! So why would our silly bodies use useful muscle BEFORE energy rich fat, the whole FUNCTION of which is to provide energy when you are in a deficit! It seems like a very silly design ...
(Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope it is not THAT much of a silly question!)
I hope you are good today, it does feel odd for a WLFer to be not happy about loosing!
It'll be worth it though, getting closer to the body shape you want!
Well, I am actually roaming your diary to ask you a question (as lots of people seem to do in your diary!) Please correct me if I have misunderstood, or point me in the right direction if you have already explained this!
You, and others, have said, that if you are loosing WEIGHT, esp if it is too quickly, or you are not doing weights, your body will utilise muscle tissue preferentially over fat as an extra energy source when you are in a deficit. OK. But my question is WHY! That might be a very silly question! BUT my point it, the physiological and evolutionary FUNCTION of fat is as an energy source when times are hard. Muscle is not, it has a very important purpose! So why would our silly bodies use useful muscle BEFORE energy rich fat, the whole FUNCTION of which is to provide energy when you are in a deficit! It seems like a very silly design
...(Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope it is not THAT much of a silly question!)
hey you
hugs,
Lena
Hi Stranger.
Things are well.
Hi Steve!
I hope you are good today, it does feel odd for a WLFer to be not happy about loosing!
It'll be worth it though, getting closer to the body shape you want!
Well, I am actually roaming your diary to ask you a question (as lots of people seem to do in your diary!) Please correct me if I have misunderstood, or point me in the right direction if you have already explained this!
You, and others, have said, that if you are loosing WEIGHT, esp if it is too quickly, or you are not doing weights, your body will utilise muscle tissue preferentially over fat as an extra energy source when you are in a deficit. OK. But my question is WHY! That might be a very silly question! BUT my point it, the physiological and evolutionary FUNCTION of fat is as an energy source when times are hard. Muscle is not, it has a very important purpose! So why would our silly bodies use useful muscle BEFORE energy rich fat, the whole FUNCTION of which is to provide energy when you are in a deficit! It seems like a very silly design
(Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope it is not THAT much of a silly question!)
Here is a post from not too long ago in another thread regarding this very topic, that I made. See if it answers your question. If not, feel free to ask more questions.
Let's keep this simple.
Why doesn't our body utilize our existing fat stores as energy, to aid in hypertrophy (muscle building)?
You have to remember this very simple fact. Having an abundance of food at arm's length is a rather new dilemna, in the grand scheme of things. I mean, go back a thousand years and you were not able to eat, how we eat today. And 1000 years isn't that long even. Go back 10,000 years and wow, things were much, much different.
We did not have a continuous food supply. Excess food was not an issue and humans had to develop the ability to survive periods with low to no energy intake.
Because of this, our bodies want to store excess energy as fat. It is calorically dense and easily stored. On the flip-side, muscle is energetically costly. This means adding new muscle is not a *cheap* process in terms of energy (calorie) utilization.
Add to this, ultimately, aside from the base level of muscle that each of us has, additional muscle is worthless in our *body's mind.*
When the early man found a huge stash of food, he would gorge until he was full and then some. It doesn't take science to tell us that this will result in a gain of fat. He did this so that when the winter came and everything died or ran for the equator, he had enough energy to maintain life during this period.
Mind you, this went on for more years than you can fathom from your short time here on lovely Earth. Adaptation is an amazing thing. It takes a VERY long time to happen. Extremely slow process.
We adapted for survival during a time when food (energy) was scarce.
Back when, if the body decided to use a ton of energy to make muscle instead of fat, you would have stored less gross energy in a tissue that is harder to extract energy from, and ultimately it would have died during food-scarce periods.
To add to this, this is why we have many systems in place physiologically that ensure we don't under-eat. Stop eating for a few days. See how hungry you become. See how your cravings shoot through the roof. The endocrine system, primarily, is amazingly responsive to under-consumption of food.
Flip this. With over-consumption (something that is commonplace this day in age) not so much. Our bodies are relatively weak at detecting over-consumption due to the times long ago.
So, in a nutshell: Our bodies like storing fat for survival even though we don't need it today. Our bodies don't like storing muscle since it is an energetically expensive tissue.
Hence, you will never find a human that is able to convert fat to muscle. At least not in the 21st century. Things might be different in the 31st.
TomO
0
Morning, Coach! Question for you. . . concerning my most recent weight training workout.
Do you try to increase your goals on all your exercises at once, or just pick one or two at a time, and leave the rest alone? As you can see, by the time I got to the military press, I was starting to crap out.
Do you try to increase your goals on all your exercises at once, or just pick one or two at a time, and leave the rest alone? As you can see, by the time I got to the military press, I was starting to crap out.
No, I ALWAYS try and increase weight if I can, on all exercises. If I can't, I shoot for one more rep. But this is when I am bulking.
When I am cutting.... if I am maintaining strength, I am happy.
MissJellyBelly
New member
Interesting info on the division of fat and muscle. Thanks for sharing.