We know, that losing weight is very difficult thing, especially for women. They will making some rules such as strict diet changes or to work out regularly. They hope it can losing their weight soon.
So, it requires some serious work because the goal while trying to lose weight is increasing the muscle mass and decreasing body fat. As information, losing muscle mass affects our strength and endurance negatively and leads to decreased functional performance.
And in some cases, many woman start losing their muscle mass first, instead of fat. It will be happens when someone trying to lose weight but does not eat enough protein, over trains, or doesn’t sleep well, that they lose muscle mass instead of fat.
As cited News24xx.com from TOI, here are four indicators that you are losing muscle mass and not fat.
Your workout feels even strained
If you feeling less strength while working out, not able to do the same number of reps or not able to lift the same weight can be a sign that you are losing muscle mass.
You feel sluggish all day long
If you losing muscle mass, it can lead to impaired function. After not eating properly, you will feeling energy deficiencies and overtraining.
If a person is losing weight along with a decrease in their performance, overtraining might be the reason behind that.
Your body fat percentage is the same
When you lose muscle mass, but your body doesn’t shape the way you want, and the number on the scale is changing but your body fat percentage isn’t budging, it’s a sign that you are losing muscle mass.
You are losing weight too quickly
Losing weight rapidly is not a good things, and it’s probably not good for your muscle mass.
Weight loss is like a marathon and not a sprint race. Weight loss is not a cakewalk, as it takes a lot of time and effort to see visible and sustainable results.
