The first is the same quote I hear people say all the time
"I just want to turn all my fat into muscle" or "I'm gonna start lifting weights so I can make all my fat turn to muscle"
Sorry folks, you can't turn fat into muscle. It's physiologically impossible. However, you can do the next best thing...
It's what I call the concern for muscle. You see the more lean muscle you have the more calories from fat you burn throughout the day.
The other misconception is how fat is really burned. You know - when you lose 10 or 20 pounds of fat most you think that you are zapping those fats cells and the disappear forever right?
Wrong!!!
You never really get rid of those fats cells, they just shrink and wait until your next binge to fill up again :)
Research has actually shown that people keep the same number of fats cells throughout life and that number is determined during childhood. What you also may not realize is that your body is continuously destroying fats cells while growing new ones.
Now for the real kicker - even though your body can't get rid of fat cells guess what?
It sure can grow new ones!!!
So the moral of the story is to realize that having as much lean body mass(muscle) as possible will fight fat for life, and staying active and healthy at an early age ( a major problem in our world today) will keep your fat cells as low as humanly possible as you (or your children) grow up.
Just a little food for thought (or should I say fat for thought).
JZ
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