ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When it comes to weight loss, it’s good to know what healthy weight loss looks like and how little gains actually are a lot.
Trainer Flip Garcia, with MiLEO Fitness brought in some props to visualize that. Five pounds doesn’t sound like a lot but the props show what it looks like in fat and in muscle.
“A lot of people tend to say, ‘oh, well, you know, muscle weighs more than fat, so that’s why I weigh more on the scale.’ Well, that’s incorrect. One pound of fat and one pound of muscle is still one pound,” Garcia said. “The difference is the amount of volume that fat tends to take on the body compared to the dense muscle.”…