As you'll soon see, there's absolutely a direct relationship between strength and muscle size, but there's also more to the story, and it explains why some people are much stronger than they look (and vice versa) and why some people can gain
significant amounts of muscle without ever paying attention to their one - rep maxes.
Not exact matches
Most notably,
without increasing your protein intake you can't expect to stimulate any
significant muscle growth nor lose the desired
amount of weight.
Significant amounts of weight can be lost on a low - calorie diet
without losing
muscle mass or damaging metabolism levels if resistance exercise is incorporated into your weight loss plan.
Without sufficient protein intake, it will be physically impossible for your body to synthesize a
significant amount of lean
muscle mass.