Hi All,
Curious to hear about people's experiences with weight loss in the setting of muscle memory. For those who aren't familiar, the muscle memory effect is a cool phenomenon that allows your body to very quickly regain muscle you once previously had. So if you were jacked and then lost all your muscle from a hiatus, if you started up again, you could regain your muscles in 2-3 months, even if they required 10+ years to gain initially.
Anyway, while I've lost weight many times in my life, this is the first time I'm going at it with the muscle memory effect. Granted I was never that muscular, but I've probably lost around 5-10 lb of muscle from a few years ago when I got into weightlifting.
Now that I'm back in the gym lifting heavy again, I see my strength and muscle coming back very quickly, and that's while I'm in a caloric deficit of ~300-500. I'm also not feeling as tired as I usually feel during cuts but that could be because I'm in ketosis.
As far as my weight loss, this past week, I was 129.6lb on Monday and already I've lost 3.2 lbs. I'm 36 yo man at 5'4 (~20% BF). And FYI, I've already lost my initial water weight weeks ago and have been in a state of ketosis for a while now -- so the 3.2 lb drop is probably not mostly water weight.
On top of this, due to muscle memory, I imagine I've also gained some muscle right? I mean I can visually see a difference in size, even in my low glycogen state due to keto. So that means I've potentially burned even more fat than the scale shows.
I'm kind of at a loss here. I know it's healthy to aim for 1-2lb/week but maybe this isn't so abnormal when you have muscle memory on your side? I wonder if the crazy initial boost in muscle is increasing my metabolism, increasing my testosterone levels, and that's allowing me to persevere without much fatigue.
Would love to hear from other ppl's experiences
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