Are You Really Losing Fat?

Some people believe that when they’re fasting there losing weight. Yes, that’s true you probably will lose so weight, but is that weight you really want off? When you’re fasting for so long your body goes into a metabolism shut down mode. It turns all available energy (calories) into fat for storage, so you actually gain fat. So why does the scale go down? Because you’re losing muscle! Excess muscle breaks down and goes to waste because more muscle requires more energy to sustain. Your body will lose muscle to lower its MBR (metabolic rate – how much your body consumes just to stay alive, like your heart, lungs, brain, it all needs energy to run). As most people know muscle weighs more than fat, so you’re gaining fat, and losing muscle. That’s why the number on the scale goes down but you’ll measure and look the same (actually you’ll end up looking less toned); so lesson learned, eat more (healthy stuff) not less. Keep that metabolism fast and you don’t have to worry about too much else.