So I had another DEXA scan today and not much changed. I didn’t expect much to change. However, it made me wonder how many of us ladies have low muscle (sarcopenia). My lean mass isn’t too bad, but I have a lot of fat on my thighs (I need to do something about that).
I have a bad habit of not thinking of working out at home (pushups, squats, etc), but can’t go to a gym ($$$ and kids).
Anyone else in this same boat?
I’ve been in that boat my whole life. 
Now am past caring, but pre-menopause when I was vain, I dressed to downplay my stubby, fat legs and showcase my superb hourglass figure above them.
I’m currently 114lb but 100 of the lbs are in my legs 
I’m about 116lbs, but have about 30lbs of fat. I want to convert a good chunk of that to muscle.
I’m too exercise averse and apathetic to care.
I have naturally good muscle tone, and my calves have ugly bulgy muscles. I look like I spend my days toiling in a field 
I am on my feet all day and my body is fatigued by the time I get home. I cancelled my gym membership because it was a waste of money, I didn’t go. I lift weights and do core stuff on a balance ball while I catch up on shows. It’s like I want the body but I don’t want it enough to do the things every single night. And if I’m honest, I’ve had “the body” and the minute I stopped working out so hard I deconditioned quickly so that was annoying. I’m not an athlete so I’m okay with being strong enough to run away from a creep and move a couch, but not strong enough to hang off a cliff by my fingertips.
It’s just that my muscle mass is almost “to low”. I don’t want to be buff, but I want to have a healthy muscle mass. I don’t want to have to put in a lot of effort to maintain it though. It’s easy for me to fall out of workout routines.
At work, when I’m stuck standing in one place for a while, I do leg lifts and squats or grab something heavy and lift it for a bit. Maybe you’ll have to incorporate it throughout the day. Remember when Cindy Crawford had a work out video? Most of it was these leg swinging exercises with a kitchen chair and they were pretty effective and not terribly hard. Let me see if it’s available online! Found it.
For me it’s more remembering to do it…I get distracted easily… Now, what were we talking about? 
Hehe 
I think this must be tough for you to overcome because you keep protein quite low don’t you? Increasing protein is the way to normally try to slow sarcopenia and maintain muscle mass besides exercise which uses protein and amino acids to build muscle.
Yeah. I’ve been eating an average of 1g/kg of body weight though. I’m trying to up it to about 1.25g/kg
I’m trying to eat more protein. Back to 107 but the kettlebells aren’t really producing any results, other than sore arms.
If you want to increase muscle & you’re already at a very low weight you need to eat more calories not just higher protein. If your calorie intake is too low then exercise can reduce fat and muscle.
Thanks Safi - I have so missed you! I am officially low-carb, not keto. So, working on the calories.
You’ll get there - low carb is a perfectly cromulent way of eating