A question that comes up quite often is how much fat someone can lose when they are dieting down to the single digit range. It’s often claimed that losing more than two pounds per week will cause muscle loss or that the ratio of fat to muscle lost will start to shift in a negative direction. Even that data is usually based on studies of the obese and it is likely to change as people get leaner. So what’s the reality. How fast can fat be lost in lean individuals without muscle loss.
The 2 Pound Per Week Limit
The idea that weekly weight loss should be limited to 2 pounds has been bouncing around for decades although nobody seems to know where it came from. There’s no real physiological reason for this to be a weekly maximum and much larger rates of both weight and fat loss can be achieved with extreme deficit diets.… Keep Reading