[Discussion] FFMI not weight, or you will celebrate losing muscle
Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: FFMI not weight, or you will celebrate losing muscle. Strength retention is an imperfect but free longitudinal proxy: it is affected by neural factors and by being in a deficit, so it tracks tissue change loosely rather than exactly. Fat-free mass index is a ratio of…
Nothing here is a training or nutrition prescription. Targets and programmes are matters for somebody who knows your history and your training background.
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losing weight slower does not automatically preserve more lean mass
That protein figure is grams per day, not grams per kilogram. Different claim entirely.
the appetite effect makes eating enough protein a logistics problem
Agreed on the error margin. Quoting a DEXA to one decimal implies a precision the method does not have.
nothing on this board is a training or nutrition prescription
Yes. Lean mass change during weight loss is expected; the useful question is the proportion, not whether it happens.
Agreed — protein and resistance training. Everything else in these threads is a rounding error on those two.
Small fix — that is fat-free mass, not muscle mass. The scan cannot separate them the way the post assumes.