Actually wrote this yesterday and forgot to post. This blog has nothing to do with Kaleb, or suicide or anything important really, I just can't figure out where weight "goes". I've been working on my health and go to Fit Body BootCamp usually 5 days a week now that my knee is fixed. I'm also watching what I eat to help be in better shape. It's not necessarily about losing weight although that would be a nice side effect, it about getting stronger and healthier. I'm not scientific in any way, wasn't my favorite class so I don't really understand how your whole body works. I've seen pictures of 5 pounds of fat versus 5 pounds of muscle. But my question is where does it go? Where does it come from?
I'm very logical and once I start thinking about something it bothers me until I figure out how it works. This morning I weighed before class and I weighed after class. Not really sure what made me weigh again other than I had gained a pound from yesterday to today so I guess I was hoping it had miraculously disappeared. It did, I was a pound lighter. Yes, I sweated, but I also drank water which should have replenished what I lost. 1 pound of sweat would be a whole lot of sweating. I know I burned calories, but where do the calories go when you burn them? I'm replacing fat with muscle, but where does the fat go when it's being replaced. I can't wrap my mind around how your body can make these disappear(fat & weight) and make other things appear (muscle). I do know flabby skin doesn't disappear no matter how much you want it to. Maybe one day I'll get that elective surgery and have it removed since I don't think my body is that magic. I get how you eat fewer calories and you lose weight because your body has to use calories to work all day. So that part of it I get. But when I go exercise where does the weight go? Scales didn't move, clothing wasn't different, no I hadn't gone to the restroom in between weigh ins, it was literally right before I went to class and right after I got back home. I was actually soaking in sweat when I weighed the 2nd time so I'd have thought I'd weigh a little more.
Where does all those big globs of fat go when you start adding pretty red lean muscle? Do they stay hiding in your body somewhere? Because I know as soon as you stop exercising they start coming back so they have to be there somewhere. Which brings up another question. Are the bright colors used in "examples" actually what color it is in my body? Or just some pictures used for dramatic effect? Maybe I should have listened in science a little more but who knew one day I'd be stuck on the question of where does your fat go. As a teenager I didn't think it'd ever be something I'd have to worry about. I was fit and lean. I was invincible and thought I'd never be old or look like that so why did I need to know how your body worked. Mine at that time worked just fine! Oh to be 105 pounds again and think I was heavy.
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