Lose Weight But Keep Muscle?
by Chris
(Virginia)
Hello,
I am trying to lean myself out, but seem to only drop a little fat, then strip off muscle whenever I start to hit the cardio hard.
I was running for only 20min each morning on an empty stomach, and lifting most nights. I was eating about 2500 calories a day with about 160g of protein, and I lost 7 lbs in a week..clearly not healthy, and most of the weight was muscle, as indicated by the minimal bf% decrease.
When I begin cutting again, should I up my calories, up my protein only, or maybe do cardio every other day rather than each day, combined with heavy lifting every other day?
Thanks for the help.
