A point of contention:
Muscle does not weigh more than fat.
I can’t explain what it does to me when I read things like.. “well I know muscle weighs more than fat, so if I’m heavier at my weigh in, that’s why…”
NO.
I know what you mean. I know YOU know what you mean. SAY IT THE RIGHT WAY.
A lb of muscle and a lb of fat weigh the same. A POUND! Muscle is more dense than fat. Fat has more mass. A lb of muscle is SMALLER than 1 lb of fat, but it does not WEIGH more.
A hunk of muscle and a hunk of fat that measuresthe same MASS (size, circumference), will not measure the same weight, because you will need more muscle or less fat to make them equal.
As well if you gain muscle and burn fat, you shouldn’t be heavier unless you were doing a lot of lifting the day before your weigh in. Muscles tend to retain water after lifting, and release it in a few days. That’s why (back when I used weights) if I was going to weigh in, I made sure to do cardio ONLY the day before a weigh in, so I wasn’t weighing retained water the next day.
Now that I’m done *twitching*, I’ll let you get back to your regularly scheduled lazy Saturday. Cause that’s what I’ve got on the agenda!
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