Want to get down to 15-17% bodyfat

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Anonymous wrote:As women age having a little body fat is actually better. My mother was extremely thin and last year in October was hospitalized and in the intensive care unit for several weeks. When she left the intensive care unit, her bodyweight had fallen to 72 pounds. It is imperative that you maintain some body fat, because in the event of a serious illness, it is all that your body has to survive on before it starts eating muscle. In her case, that is exactly what happened . And there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

My mom’s case After being discharged from the hospital for pneumonia, she spent five months inside of a rehab Nursing facility and She had to basically learn how to walk again. The reason was muscle wasting because she was bedridden and her body turned to eating her muscle tissue in order to survive. Because of her little bodyweight, she nearly died and is now permanently on a feeding tube.
For context when she went into the hospital, she weighed 110 pounds and was approximately 18% body fat. And postmenopausal.

What the hell

That is not normal. Why didn’t she get any nutrition in the hospital? She shouldn’t have been without nutrition for more than a few days. Even if she can’t eat, there are other ways to calories, protein, fat, and other nutrients into patients that are hospitalized.

PP here. She was on IV parenteral nutrition during the worst period of her pneumonia while unconscious…. and got a feeding tube inserted after regaining consciousness . When you’re laying in a ICU bed, your muscles starts to waste and the lack of movement literally massive weight loss when combined with the illness.