This is not the place to give any measurements, so I’ll just say I was fat 7 months ago and I’m not anymore.
I put on a lot of muscle mass while losing quite some fat, so I can lift rather heavy (on my own perspective), but when I mock my friends about lifting more than them even though they’ve been training for years they all go “well, you used to be fat” or “that’s easier for you because you were bigger” and I have come to understand that’s just how it works because of the Internet too, but I don’t really know why.
I don’t know if it’s the language causing a misunderstanding here, but when I say “mock” I mean we joke with each other playfully in a way that everyone’s comfortable with.
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Just to add. If you’re skinny you’re naturally eating at a calorie maintenance or deficit and it can be very difficult to add significant calories into your diet if you’re not used to it.
Obviously to gain muscle you need to be eating more calories than you use and if you’re overweight you’ve got 1) calories attached to your body in terms of fat and 2) used to eating in a calorie surplus.
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