Losing weight — whether it’s 20 pounds ... I feel ‘fat’ and like that girl I was before. I still get pointed at and laughed at and called ‘fat’ because of the way my skin looks.

These include ones like ... than fat, a pound of muscle takes up about 20% less space than a pound of fat," explains Fishman. This helps explain why 10 pounds of muscle on a person looks very ...

While 5 pounds of muscle and 5 pounds of fat weigh the same, they can look quite different and have different health effects. Muscle is not factored into your BMI, but it is factored into your ...

Therefore, its composition and calorie content are not the same as pure fat. Does one pound of body fat contain 3,500 calories? In 1958, a scientist named Max Wishnofsky concluded that the caloric ...