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Why is it so much easier to gain weight than it is to lose it?

Old 08-05-2009, 12:30 AM
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Why is it so much easier to gain weight than it is to lose it?

I've been going to the gym for the past year, twice a week regularly, and I get to all my muscle groups once a week, like clockwork. I saw some significant muscle gains, not really anything visible, but I felt stronger.

I haven't gone once in the past 4 weeks and WHAM! I'm back to my fat weak self. I've been working my butt off for the past year for this, and it went away so easily! No diet changes at all, just...didn't go. Why did all my muscle go away so fast?
Old 08-05-2009, 03:26 AM
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cause its not being pumped i guess. however with weights you can get back to where you used to be in about half the time you took off
Old 08-05-2009, 07:30 AM
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You are 16...Wait until you are 38
Old 08-05-2009, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by AMAN1
I've been going to the gym for the past year, twice a week regularly, and I get to all my muscle groups once a week, like clockwork. I saw some significant muscle gains, not really anything visible, but I felt stronger.

I haven't gone once in the past 4 weeks and WHAM! I'm back to my fat weak self. I've been working my butt off for the past year for this, and it went away so easily! No diet changes at all, just...didn't go. Why did all my muscle go away so fast?
did you change your diet when you first started working out?
Old 08-05-2009, 07:48 PM
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^ nope, never changed my diet in any significant way. Not the best though.
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