Weight loss: What actually works?
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The Effects of Calories on Muscle Growth
If you're on a calorie deficit, can that actually mean that your muscles start to break down a bit? Yes. In order to keep everything going and keep the supply lines constant, you are going to sacrifice body protein in order to turn that protein into sugar. Your liver is starting to manufacture new glucose, new sugar from other things. One of the things that it's designed to use is protein, because actually you can't turned fat into sugar. You can turn sugar into fat, but you can't turn it the other way around.
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