JJ Virgin explains that bad diets lose about 30% of weight from muscle, not fat. To prevent this, aim for 0.7 to 1 gram of protein per pound of your target body weight, spread across meals. Use her calculator at jjvirgin.com/7day to find your exact amount.
any diet that's poorly designed, you can lose, gosh, anywhere from 25 to 50% of your weight from muscle. The average is probably around 30%, but it does not have to be that way. And the way that you have it not happen, one of the ways is to make sure that you're eating the right amount of protein. I have a friend, Dr. Bill Campbell, who runs a physique lab here in Tampa at University of South Florida, and he talks about the physique athletes, the females that they eat, they tend to eat more like 1 to 1.5 grams per pound of target body weight. To get to their lean muscular place. So don't fear protein. What I have people do is 0.7 to 1 gram per pound of target body weight. And I just mentioned the physique athletes because you could go up higher. And I have them go into my protein calculator. To get that, go to jjvirgin.com/7day. That's the number 7 day. Easiest here to remember is that 1 gram per pound of target body weight, and you divide that between your meals.
