The 5 Sad Realities of Fat Loss

It’s Not All Sunshine and 6 Packs

Another lazy AI image thumbnail I made that I don’t want you to look too closely at…

Everyone wants to lose body fat, but it’s not all sunshine and 6 packs.

Today I want to share a few of the less sexy parts of the process.

For some of these points, I have tips for reducing or preventing them. I promise this isn’t intended to get you to not bother burning fat.

#1 You will lose muscle (unless…)

I wrote at length about how losing a lot of weight with Ozempic cost me a lot more muscle than I expected (you can read that full story below and the supplement I started taking that gave me the results I really wanted).

Ozempic Cost Me 15 lbs of Muscle — This $69 Supplement Worked Better

Even worse, the muscle we lose while burning fat typically comes from the areas that we gain muscle the slowest.

Here’s how to beat it…

• Go slow. We all want a quick fix but quick weight loss comes with muscle tissue loss. The faster the weight loss, the more likely it is to come from muscle tissue. Skip the extremely strict programs and crash diets…