For the Ideal Male _ How to Lose Fat, Not Muscle Mass Body
Everything you need to know about how to train, what and when you should eat, and the importance of a better night's sleep. When most people talk about trying to lose weight, what they are really trying to do is lose fat. The problem is, that requires not losing muscle—which your body naturally does when you’re in a caloric deficit. And a caloric deficit is a requisite for fat loss; you can’t lose fat without taking in fewer calories than you burn per day, says Abbie Smith-Ryan, director of the Applied Physiology Laboratory at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “If you achieve a caloric deficit to lose weight solely by cutting calories, you will lose a similar percentage of weight from fat as from muscle,” adds Heather A. Milton, senior exercise physiologist at NYU Langone’s Sports Performance Center. Which could make dieting even less attractive than it was before. Meanwhile, a caloric surplus—eating more calories than you burn per day—is required to build muscle. Thin...