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Oct 22, 2026
Fitness: When weight loss becomes about chasing a number
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Africa MelaneHOST
because that number could very well increase even though you are perhaps getting leaner and leaner because my understanding is that the weight of muscle is heavier than the weight of fat
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2:20Vincent de JagerGUEST
I mean, if you're going into a program and you're practicing a resistance training program, yes, very often you're increasing full body weight, but your body fat percentage decreases.
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2:35Vincent de JagerGUEST
So we must just make sure that the measurement tool that we're using is measuring the right factors, right? Like I mentioned before, if we get onto the scale, that scale is measuring your total body weight.
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2:50Vincent de JagerGUEST
That means the weight of your skeletal muscle, the skeletal structure, your muscles, your organs even.
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2:58Vincent de JagerGUEST
So we need to make sure that we're measuring the right type of You have the right football.

Africa MelaneHOST
And what is key though, whatever diet you then choose to follow, it has to be sustainable and it has to be healthy.