When you "burn muscle," does your body actually get any energy from it?

[deathbunny]

Or is it only done to slow the speed at which you are losing fat? This is something I never really understood, because I've always heard stuff like you can go a month + without any food, depending on your stored fat. But it sounds like a 180lb guy who doesn't workout and it sitting at ~25% bf would somehow live longer than a 220lb guy with 8-10% body fat and a load of muscle.

So does "burning muscle" just not produce as much energy pound for pound as fat? Or none and all, and is just a big "organ" that your body can shrink to preserve the rate of fat loss if needed? Sorry if this is a dumb question!

[vinnydaskinny]

are you retarded in real life or just on message boards?

[gamesguru]

"A pound of muscle contains 600 calories; a pound of fat contains 3500."
src: http://www.fitnessatlantic.com/muscle-mass.htm
So your body gets much more energy from burning fat than muscle. The only reason it burns muscle is to decrease the amount of metabolically active tissue you have and therefore your TDEE and therefore the amount of fat it must burn per day to fill the calorie deficit you are creating with your diet.

[deathbunny]

are you retarded in real life or just on message boards?

are you red in real life or just on message boards?

"A pound of muscle contains 600 calories; a pound of fat contains 3500."
src: http://www.fitnessatlantic.com/muscle-mass.htm
So your body gets much more energy from burning fat than muscle. The only reason it burns muscle is to decrease the amount of metabolically active tissue you have and therefore your TDEE and therefore the amount of fat it must burn per day to fill the calorie deficit you are creating with your diet.

this is very helpful thanks. That makes a lot more sense then.

[mingo3403]

person with more fat will survive longer. When you're starving like that the body does all it can but in the end starts eating up muscle, stops the digestive system, sends **** out to relax you to save energy etc.

[FloridaGator]

person with more fat will survive longer. When you're starving like that the body does all it can but in the end starts eating up muscle, stops the digestive system, sends **** out to relax you to save energy etc.

I don't think that is an accurate statement ...