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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re losing muscle so weight is going down. [/quote]

I hate to say it, but this.  I'm losing weight right now, but I'm eating a very high protein diet and lifting weights so that the weight is mostly fat. The risk if you don't mitigate muscles loss is that your metabolism is slowing down as you lose muscle.  
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This just isn’t true if you are doing about 7000-10000 steps with brisk walking.  You are using your muscles to walk.  She’s still
An active person.  Switching from biking/running to walking has no effect on muscle mass.  If she were not doing anything at all and cutting calories the yes, muscle would be lost.  But diet hasn’t changed and the walking is burning FAT.[/quote]

Walking is not enough to mitigate age-related muscle loss and certainly not enough to prevent muscle loss while running a calorie deficit.  Sure, walking helps with fat loss, but you can't argue with a straight face that walking has even close to the same benefits for building muscle as running or biking with any intensity.  The solution is protein and weights.  Muscle burns more calories than fat at rest, so if you lose it, your resting metabolic rate decreases, and you continue to get old.  At best, you'll end up skinny fat with a 1200-calorie BMR. [/quote]

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