She has clearly lost muscle definition, if not weight, in her legs and arms.
Dr. Ronenn Roubenoff of Tufts University notes that even Jack LaLanne lost muscle as he aged.
"Because I lost muscle tone," she said, "I kept hurting my arm".
Azeff was in bed for 90 days and lost muscle tone in places she had never even thought about.
Physical therapy is helping her learn how to use her arm again after she lost muscle tissue in the mastectomy.
Most otherwise healthy people do not become incapacitated by lost muscle strength until they are 80 or 90.
He lost muscle, then tone, until the leg withered away and looked to Williams like a pencil, or a toothpick.
Tall and lanky, with long blond hair, she said she had lost muscle since she stopped playing because she no longer trains with weights.
Mayweather's legal team told the court that his personal physician, Dr Robert Voy, visited the jail last Friday and determined the fighter had lost muscle tone.
Moreover, a study that has tracked 3,000 people for 50 years found that about 20 of them, now in their 80s, have not lost muscle mass.
When they trained with nothing in their stomachs, about 10 percent of the calories they burned came from protein, including lost muscle, the researchers wrote.
