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In this short fitness monologue, Eric Roberts explains that a bathroom scale can be misleading when you are simultaneously losing fat and gaining muscle. He points out that fat tissue is less dense and occupies more volume, while muscle tissue is denser and takes up less space. Consequently, swapping a pound of fat for a pound of muscle will not change the number on the scale, but it will change how the body looks and how clothes fit. Roberts advises viewers to judge progress by how their clothes feel, how they look in the mirror, and comments from others rather than obsessing over scale weight, reassuring them that the lack of scale movement does not mean they are doing something wrong.
