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Is it possible to burn fat without changing my weight?
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https://i0.wp.com/baltimorefishbowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/muscle-vs-fat-500x385.jpg
5lb muscle vs 5lb of fat.
If you replace an equal mass of fat with an equal mass of muscle, your weight will not change but you will be physically smaller.
If you look at this comment, the comparison should more realistically look like this
... can we cook that muscle in that fat please? 🤤
That's people. We don't eat people. We're not aliens from the Twilight zone
With that much clear fat? Imagine how good it'd taste...
I would prefer to say sane, but maybe you've had a taste already and it's messing up your thoughts...
I think more importantly fat and muscle tend to distribute very differently. Muscle doesn't build up much at the waistline, and for men that's the first place fat gets deposited
And it's not even that simple. Assuming a static diet, you're actually loading that muscle with glycogen, which makes it even heavier because water follows the glycogen. It's why fasting diets cause pretty extreme weight loss at the start. They make your muscles lighter.