>People who seem to do so actually alternate phases of fat loss and muscle
>gain
>in short periods, 2-3 days each or so.

Well, to borrow a line from Bill Clinton, that depends on what your
definition of simultaneous is.  If you go one month losing fat for a couple
days, then gaining muscle for a few days and wind up with less fat and more
muscle at the end of say, a month, that's certainly simultaneous in the long
run.

>I would ask you: Is your
>friend having her body fat tested professionally to track her progress.
>That is
>the only way you can really measure muscle gain/fat loss.

Yes, she is.  She was at least 100 pounds overweight, maybe more.  She has
been gaining muscle mass and losing weight at the same time for over a year
now.  At the very same moment?  Maybe not, but certainly within the week.
Good enough for me!

Dori Zook
Denver, CO

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