It’s my understanding that most fat (re: loss) is essentially metabolized and exhaled as carbon dioxide. What I can’t wrap my brain around is that even after eating a calorie surplus the weight doesn’t INSTANTLY appear – maybe after a heavy meal, but if it’s something just really calorie dense this isn’t the case. But the calories have been consumed so I don’t understand why the weight doesn’t reflect that instantly. So it seems like the fat gain side of thing might be actual magic.
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It does reflect it.
The fat/muscle gain won’t – because those calories are still sitting in your gut, they haven’t been processed and used yet – but if you weigh yourself, eat a pound of something and then jump on the scale you will be a pound heavier.
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