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Old Sun, Mar-06-16, 07:42
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https://katch.me/livinlowcarbman/v/...8a-3a2f0a8cff58


A few weeks ago, we were discussing Jimmy Moore's month long fast that he did in January. He got a Dexa scan, before and after, and of 20 pounds lost, the Dexa showed ten pounds lost as fat, ten as lean.

A month later, Jimmy's had another Dexa, he goes into some detail about that in the video above. Long story short--he's regained the ten pounds of lean mass he'd lost--but also the ten pounds of fat.

One factor here is that he didn't work out during the fast, and didn't work out during the one month refeed. It's pretty well established that if you lose lean mass during weight loss, and then do a refeed, exercise will increase the ratio of lean to fat mass that's regained--so I'm not really sure what's learned here. In the Minnesota starvation experiment, with refeeding, fat mass reached pre-starvation levels before lean mass did--and the increase in appetite with refeeding continued until lean mass was recovered, leading to the hypothesis that the fat overshoot that occurred in that study was due to the appetite being driven to restore the lean mass. Which begs the question of whether doing something to increase the rate at which lean mass recovered, like a bit more protein, and weight training, would have averted the fat overshoot.
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