February 29, 2012 | healthcaremagic.com. Within hours of the procedure I had a fever of about 102 and body aches, chills, and bad diarrhea with a lot of mucus accompanied by horrific cramps. ...My fever and chills and aches went away last....
Where the misunderstanding often comes in is that muscle is much more dense than fat, so that, by volume, it seems to weigh more. That is, a pound of muscle occupies less space than a pound of fat.
A wasting away of muscles where individual muscle fibers decrease in size because of progressive loss of myofibrils which is the opposite of muscular hypertrophy where there is an increase in the diameter of muscle fibers due to increased production of myofibrils, mitochondria, sarcoplasmic reticulum, and other organelles.