A healthy weight loss is between 1 – 2 lbs per week. When weight loss is slower, you maintain more of your muscle. Muscle is important to keep your “furnace” burning. Muscle is the metabolic tissue of your body and allows us to burn calories. If you lose weight too quickly, you don’t give your skin time to tighten as well. Fat that is lost quickly will not allow the skin to tighten so we prefer a slower approach as this will permit the skin to tighten up. If you lose too much muscle you will not continue to burn calories efficiently and your body will adapt to lower calories by slowing itself down.
It is also very important that our clients report every day when they start a cutting diet. If they lose too quickly their daily reports will provide us feedback to help to prevent a huge drop in weight. It is a common myth that most of the initial loss is water. Some of it is but some may also be muscle. We don’t want this and we will react to prevent this.