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While it’s true that more muscle mass requires more calories it also has an impact on your appetite so if you aren’t conscious of what you’re eating you can als
by towaway15463 4y ago
While it’s true that more muscle mass requires more calories it also has an impact on your appetite so if you aren’t conscious of what you’re eating you can also gain a lot of fat while gaining muscle. There’s no way around it if you want to look lean you need to balance your diet and eat an appropriate number of calories for your weight and activity level.
- swader999 4y agoThis is not necessarily true when you are young, but after about age 35, it gets harder and harder to outrun the kitchen.
- curiousllama 4y agoIt’s still true when you’re young! Youth compensates for bad diet, but it also accelerated the positive effects of good diet & exercise.
- lottin 4y agoThe thing is if you get lean without having put on plenty of muscle first, you'll look like a bag of bones, which is neither healthy nor aesthetically pleasing.
- Jensson 4y agoYou wont look like a bag of bones unless you start to literally starve yourself into underweight levels, like BMI less than 17. Healthy weight people at around BMI 22 don't look like bags of bones, they either have significant amounts of muscle or fat, that is roughly the level where most athletes are so you either have that amount of muscle or the equivalent in fat or somewhere in between.
- lottin 4y agoBMI is pretty meaningless without taking into account body composition.