Did you know that muscle does not weigh more than fat?

I have been reading some answers where people are saying that some weight gains and stalls/plateaus are due to gaining muscle weight or just for whatever the reason, that muscles weigh more than fat and this is just NOT true...Fat and muscle weigh the same amount. However, by volume they LOOK very different...Just like 10 pounds of feathers weigh the same as 10 pounds of Iron...But if you stuff a pillow with the same 10 pounds of feathers as the 10 of iron, you will have a fluffier pillow with feathers...Same goes for the fat vs muscle... Muscle (like iron) is much denser than fat (like feathers) and looks leaner on in a body...but it does not weigh more or less than fat! Muscle does not turn into fat and fat does not turn into muscle either! Do the research yourself...I say this all the time because IT MATTERS, "Learn how your body works"...There are sooooooo many old diet myths that need to be clarified for any of us to have success!! MYTHS do no one any good! And if people believe that they are gaining because of muscle, by the time they gain 25-50 pounds back it's too late to know that this just was not true! I make mistakes myself...but this one keeps coming up and it was making me crazier than I already am! No offense meant to anyone! I promise, because I used to think the same thing for so long and might have even repeated it myself! I just want to clear up an old myth so people will stop passing it around...

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