For the sake of playing Devil's advocate...

It's not the trainer's fault, the trainer provides a means to reach the client's goal. A good trainer would probably advise against losing muscle mass to achieve your goal though.

If the OP has large legs and would look very disproportionate once he's shed some upper body fat, then maybe he just wants to lose some mass for the sake of symmetry. We tell the golf tee's to start squatting and deadlifting because they've got little chicken legs that don't match their much larger upper body. We tell them to add mass to their lower body to proportion themselves out (among other things of course), so why can't someone lose muscle to proportion themselves out. Not everyone trains for mass or strength.

I'm not saying that deliberately losing muscle is a good plan of action or something that I would ever do, but I don't think it's as big a deal or as absurd as it's being made out to be.

It's good to have a goal, and saying 'I want to reach X lbs bodyweight' is much better than saying 'I want to lose some weight'

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