• Anivia@feddit.org
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    No, your body prefers fat as an energy source. Turning muscles into energy is a lot of effort for your metabolism, and building new muscles when you refeed also.

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      Uhm, no, it builds first fat, needs fat as an “ingredient” to build muscles (makes no sense to build all that muscle if you barely have enough energy to survive). Then burns preferably muscles. Fat is hard to convert, protein (muscle) is easily accessible (bodybuilders take protein as supplement). You need excercise and not just starving to lose weight, no?

      And btw, even just keeping muscles needs more energy. Fat not.

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        needs fat as an “ingredient” to build muscles

        No, muscle protein synthesis needs amino-acids. Fat is not used to build muscle

        Then burns preferably muscles

        No

        Fat is hard to convert

        Not nearly as hard as it is for the body to atrophy muscle mass, turn the proteins into amino-acids, and turn those amino-acids into glucose and then ATP

        protein (muscle) is easily accessible (bodybuilders take protein as supplement)

        It isn’t, and the digestion of whey protein supplements can not be compared to muscle atrophy

        You need excercise and not just starving to lose weight, no?

        At this point I’m sure you’re just trolling, because that couldn’t be further from the truth

        And btw, even just keeping muscles needs more energy

        True

        Fat not

        Keeping fat cells also uses energy, just not nearly as much as muscle mass

        If you wanna know my credibility on this topic I would suggest a look at my profile picture