Feeling strong and fit, but up 10 lbs

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Anonymous wrote:Get a scale with body fat measurement. It’s not just your weight number, it’s also body fat percentage. I would feel
much different about gaining 10 pounds at a 30% body fat than at a 20% body fat.

If you are exercising much more it’s possible that you weigh more because you have more muscle, and muscle is heavier than fat.

This is 100% false, I don’t know why people are still repeating this in 2022.

That muscle is more dense than fat? Have you ever read Pippi Longstockings? Remember her very very fat dad just floated away and couldn't sink? True story.

But more legitimately ....

1 cup of fat weighs about 7.5 oz.
1 cup of muscle weight about 9.7 oz.

https://banisternutrition.com/fat-vs-muscle/

Yes it is more dense. But a pound is still a pound.

Yes, of course, we all know that a pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of bricks. But that is what the original poster meant, and you knew that. Muscle [of any given volume] weighs more than fat [of that same given volume].

You really think you did something there, huh? The problem is that poster suggested that OP might weigh more due to muscle. When OP clearly said she works out but has been indulging a lot lately. You don't accidentally put on 10 lbs of muscle. In fact it would be incredibly difficult for anyone, especially a woman, to put on 10 lbs or even 5 lbs of muscle without really working at it and having a prescribed nutrition plan for bulking. So the overall premise was flawed to begin with, the semantics are secondary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get a scale with body fat measurement. It’s not just your weight number, it’s also body fat percentage. I would feel
much different about gaining 10 pounds at a 30% body fat than at a 20% body fat.

If you are exercising much more it’s possible that you weigh more because you have more muscle, and muscle is heavier than fat.

This is 100% false, I don’t know why people are still repeating this in 2022.

That muscle is more dense than fat? Have you ever read Pippi Longstockings? Remember her very very fat dad just floated away and couldn't sink? True story.

But more legitimately ....

1 cup of fat weighs about 7.5 oz.
1 cup of muscle weight about 9.7 oz.

https://banisternutrition.com/fat-vs-muscle/

Yes it is more dense. But a pound is still a pound.

Yes, of course, we all know that a pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of bricks. But that is what the original poster meant, and you knew that. Muscle [of any given volume] weighs more than fat [of that same given volume].

You really think you did something there, huh? The problem is that poster suggested that OP might weigh more due to muscle. When OP clearly said she works out but has been indulging a lot lately. You don't accidentally put on 10 lbs of muscle. In fact it would be incredibly difficult for anyone, especially a woman, to put on 10 lbs or even 5 lbs of muscle without really working at it and having a prescribed nutrition plan for bulking. So the overall premise was flawed to begin with, the semantics are secondary.

I'm not disputing that most people don't see weight gain from muscle gain. That takes serious work. The poster I responded to was the one who complained about the comment

" .... and muscle is heavier than fat."

and they said

"This is 100% false, I don’t know why people are still repeating this in 2022." This being the bolded statement, which is what I was responding to.