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Anonymous wrote:You’re losing muscle so weight is going down.

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.

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.

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.

I think you're letting perfect be the enemy of the good. OP got injured and found a fitness silver lining. No, it won't build muscle like weight lifting or running. But most people spend a portion of their lives physically or emotionally incapable of a vigorous fitness regime, and walking is something they can do and see positive effects.

True. Just pointing out that when you lose weight due to a calorie deficit, you also lose muscle mass, no matter what you do. You can mitigate it with resistance training and protein. Even without weight loss, you lose up to 30%of muscle mass between ages 50 and 70; then, it accelerates from there. If you've ever been so unfortunate that you need a GLP-1 agonist to lose weight, this is old news as most doctors now educate their patients on the importance of protein and resistance training while you're losing weight.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re losing muscle so weight is going down.

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.

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.

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.

I think you're letting perfect be the enemy of the good. OP got injured and found a fitness silver lining. No, it won't build muscle like weight lifting or running. But most people spend a portion of their lives physically or emotionally incapable of a vigorous fitness regime, and walking is something they can do and see positive effects.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re losing muscle so weight is going down.

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.

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.

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.

I'm one of the PPs who walks a ton. Honestly, people get overwhelmed by everything they're "supposed" to do. For many people, myself included, a consistent walking routine is the ideal solution. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Walking 15-20k steps per day has been nothing short of transformative for me in every way. I don't run (I hate it and it hurts me) or lift weights (doing so increases my hunger) and I am getting thinner and more toned by the week. We should all do the best we can reasonably and consistently do and celebrate the better habits we're creating.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re losing muscle so weight is going down.

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.

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re losing muscle so weight is going down.

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.

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.