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There are all kinds of cases where calories in < calories out which could result in weight gain. For example, if you already have an excess of body fat and you
by einhverfr 12y ago
There are all kinds of cases where calories in < calories out which could result in weight gain. For example, if you already have an excess of body fat and you are building muscle quickly, remember muscle has 4kcal/g while fat has 9. If you are building muscle 1-2x breaking down fat, you will gain weight while losing fat, and expending more calories than what you are taking in.
Again, it's an abstraction which mostly works but it is also clearly not entirely true.
- fredophile 12y agoObviously there are issues that can mask the weight loss from losing fat in the short term (water retention is a prime culprit here). However, in the long term (at least 8-12 weeks) the trend should be fairly obvious. The situation you described where someone is packing on 1-2 lbs of muscle for every lb of fat lost is very hard to achieve and generally only seen in beginners. Once the beginner gains are out of the way they'll see the same pattern as everyone else.
- einhverfr 12y agoI am saying delta weight does not necessarily relate to delta fat. Delta fat contributes to delta weight but to say that other factors mask weight gain or loss makes me wonder if there is a fundamental confusion here...
- fredophile 12y agoI didn't say other factors mask weight loss. I said other factors mask weight loss from fat. Most of the time when someone says they want to lose weight they really mean they want to lose fat.