lose weight, you can lose quite a bit of muscle,70 and this in turn hampers your weight loss in several ways: 1. It causes your basal metabolic rate to drop.71 2. It reduces the number of calories you burn in your workouts.72 3. It impairs the metabolism of glucose and lipids.73 As you can see, when you want to lose fat, your number-one goal is to preserve lean mass, and eating an adequate amount of protein every day is vital to achieve this goal.
