When did this building burn?

Will building muscle burn fat?

• hi i weigh 320 pounds and im 5;7 i weighed 346 a week ago but i went on a cabbage soup diet so i lost alot of weight. i do cardio everyday . i want to weight lift again like i did in high school when i was really stacked if i lifed powered lift and did the weight bench will it burn the fat away and as far as my diet now i drink protein shakes alot of water and for dinner i eat 3 boiled eggs and oat meal i work all day so will the muscle burn the fat

• Answer:

  The act of building the muscle itself is completely separate of burning fat. If you're weight lifting you will build muscle, but the idea is to use fat as the energy to do that (or just to work out in general). So essentially weight lifting will help you burn fat, so I guess it was just in the wording of the question that was off. Also as a side note, muscle has a lot higher metabolic response than fat, so as you start to change your body composition (fat to muscle ratio). You're muscles require more energy to live and survive, meaning naturally your body will burn more calories a day just to live. Hope this helps!