The BIG drawback of losing weight without exercise is that when your calorie consumption returns to normal you will gain weight. When you gain weight after losing it without exercise, you don’t automatically regain the lost muscle mass. Most of your regained weight will be in fat stores, so your body fat percentage will be higher then before the initial weight loss. If you repeat this pattern of behavior you set yourself up for the old “yo-yo” syndrome that we are all familiar with. Every time you lose weight without exercise, and then gain any weight back, you change your body composition for the worse. You will be fatter and less muscular. Muscle burns more calories than fat, so it stands to reason that the higher your muscle to fat ratio, the higher your BMR (the rate at which your body uses calories) will be. If you follow this pattern long enough your BMI (body mass index) gets out of balance, making it harder and harder to lose weight because your fat to muscle ratio is so askew. You get fatter even if you weigh less then when you started. The result is that you can be at a normal weight but have a high body fat percentage, and be unhealthy and flabby.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:33:10 +0000