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Absolute truth right here. When it comes to fat vs muscle it always surprises me when people say muscle weighs more than fat. No. A pound is a pound. Period. One just takes up more space than the other. Remember, when it comes to fitness, the scale is NOTHING but a number. Every positive change counts! How/what you're eating matters as much as how many times a day you're eating. 6 small, healthy meals a day are better than 3 big, calorie laden ones. You're fueling your body with smaller, healthier, more frequent meals. Fueling your body regularly gives you more energy to do the things. Inches lost mean more than pounds lost. How your clothes fit means more than a number in the scale. Yet so many people adhere to the misnomer that it's the scale that matters most and they get discouraged when the scale only moves a couple notches, or not at all. Every. Positive. Change. Counts. Celebrate them! Celebrate the non scale victories! The looser fit of your clothing, shoes and rings. The drinking half your weight in water that day. The saying no to that 2nd serving or eating smaller portions. Everybody's got to start somewhere. The key is to START! Celebrate you getting off the couch and going to the gym, no matter what your size! You going at your own pace at the gym is vastly superior to sitting around at home. You getting out there and going slow is still you running laps around those who choose to sit on the couch in front of the TV. You choosing to be healthier is reason to celebrate right there! If you don't celebrate the small victories, you won't celebrate the big ones either. Here are 5 HABITS you can start practicing today to get started: 1️⃣ Drink 1/2 your body weight in water 2️⃣ Add in a serving of fruit or vegetables for a snack 3️⃣ Walk for 10 minutes before or after any meal 4️⃣ Eat protein with every meal 5️⃣ Focus on portion control Remember, YOU are doing this for YOU!! #ThinkAboutIt #FoodForThought #APoundIsAPound #Fitness #Healthy #EatClean #GetLean #DoTheThings #Health #GetFit #FatVsMuscle #EveryPositiveChangeCounts #CelebrateTheAccomplishments #Celebrate #Victories #CelebrateTheVictories #Fitstagram #FitMom #FitChick https://www.instagram.com/p/CY2TI6FlwrR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"Muscle weighs more than fat." This is a recurring comment that I keep seeing on the keto/lowcarb #Facebook groups that I follow... "One pound of mashed potatoes weighs the same as one pound of raw potatoes. No matter how you slice, scallop or roast it, a pound is a pound. While fat and lean muscle weighs the same pound for pound, their composition varies immensely. Muscle has a leaner appearance due to its high density, whereas free-floating, Jello-like, fatty tissue needs more space to jiggle around, due to its low volume. The best way to illustrate this concept is to use the mashed potatoes analogy. The consistency of mashed potatoes is comparable to lard in your body—lumpy, buttery and visually God-awful in a pair of yoga pants. Contrastingly, raw potatoes are a firmly packed matter, requiring very little room for expansion. In other words, I’d prefer my backside to look like two raw Yukons than two heaps of Country Crock." -Ashley B. Greenblatt (Twitter: @AshleyBlakeG18) Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/sportsdoc/Fitness-MythBusters-does-muscle-weight-more-than-fat.html #muscledoesnotweighmorethanfat #pleasestopsayingit #petpeeve #apoundisapound #muscleisdenserthanfat #tworawyukons #lol #donteatthepotatoes #keto #lowcarb #potatoesarenotlowcarb #lookbutdonttouch #lookbutdonteat