Eating Healthy But Not Losing Weight

22 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief, informal monologue, the speaker explains why someone who is eating healthier and weight‑training may not see a drop in scale weight despite visible changes in how their clothes fit. The key point is that muscle and fat weigh the same per pound, but muscle is denser and occupies less volume, so gaining muscle while losing fat can keep the number on the scale relatively unchanged. The speaker emphasizes that this is normal, urges the listener not to worry about the scale, and encourages them to keep up their healthy habits, using a casual, profanity‑laden tone.

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If you've been eating healthier, lifting weights, and seeing your clothes fit differently, but you're not losing weight on the scale, then here's what you need to do to fix it. First, you have to understand that muscle weighs more than fat. Okay, if you've heard that before, that's not entirely true. A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat. They're both a pound. Muscle is more dense than fat, which means it takes up less space. space on your body. And so if you lose 3 pounds of fat but you gain 3 pounds of muscle, this number on the scale is not going to change that much, but you will look different and see changes in your body. So you don't need to do anything to fix it. You're seeing great progress no matter what that number on the scale says. So chill the fuck out and keep going. All right.