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Comment by 2muchcoffeeman

3 years ago

There’s an idea in the fitness industry called “skinny fat”. Thin people who “look” and eat healthy but when you actually look at their body composition have no muscle and relatively high fat percentage.

I’m my experience people severely underestimate the effects of having more muscles mass and the changes it can cause when you lose some from lack of training.

It also bleeds into peoples thinking. People view exercise as a way to lose weight. And eating less is, rightly, a more efficient way of losing weight. But body composition really matters not just for losing weight, but just life in general.