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FAT vs MUSCLE
Have you ever heard "Muscle weighs more than fat"?  Well, its not true. 5 lbs of feathers weighs 5 lbs. A 5 lb weight weight s 5 lbs. A 5 lb bag of sugar weighs...you guessed it - 5 lbs!  So at any given weight, fat and muscle weigh the same amount. The issue is size and density of the weight. A 5 lb bag of feathers might be able to fill a 30 gallon trash bag and a 5 lb bag of sugar might fit in a 1/2 gallon bag.  So, what should be stated is this: Fat takes up twice as much room as muscle. AND....for another blog....muscle can not turn into fat....more on that later!

Although the scale is an important tool for monitoring weight, so is monitoring your clothes and how they fit! If you have  been working out, doing weight training, eating clean....but the scale hasn't budged but your clothes are obviously more loose, you may have lost fat and replaced that fat weight loss with muscle gain. It is subtle on the scale, but obvious in how you feel.

So keep this in mind with eating and exercising. Keep this "visual" in your head. And think....eat clean/great for 6 days, cheat one. Go hard & tough 5/6 days on your exercise...active/light exercise 2 /1 days.


 


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