Wow. I followed Sedonia's link from the calorie thread
http://www.stumptuous.com & poked around on the site & found this:
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One study which I saw years ago showed that women who were put on equal diets (same amount of calories) lost the same amount of numeric weight (i.e. scale weight in pounds), but the group of women who was weight training wound up with much lower body fat than the sedentary group. Some members of the sedentary dieting group even wound up with more overall body fat as a percentage than they had started with, indicating that there was substantial muscle loss as a result of the dieting.
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Let's say in a second example that our 200 lb. person hasn't been training or eating right, and manages to get down to 160 lbs. through a combo of chain smoking, black coffee, and long hours of low intensity, endurance-based cardio. However, because of her poor training and eating habits, she's only made it down to 25% body fat. This means she's lost 20 lbs. of fat and 20 lbs. of muscle. Same finishing weight, big difference in results...
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Um....oops?
No more walking my doggie for 3 miles. We'll do just 30 minutes a day of interval training & use the leftover time to lift some weights!