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Fat covering muscles
Is it true that if you're not a very active person, and you do sit ups/crunches, whatever works your abs, and eat a lot of junk foods, the fat that you gain from the junk foods will cover the muscles and make you appear... well chubbier in the stomach area?
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no it will not make you look any bigger than you are. when you workout/excersize you use lose fat and THEN you start to build muscles. so if you keep eating tons of junk food the crunches just wont make any difference.
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Well, you can work out alot and do as many crunches as you want but if you eat crappy foods then good luck trying to get a 6 pack. I know it might be different for guys because they're lucky and can eat almost anything, but girls its different (atleast for me and other girls I know).
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What is true is that if you take in more calories than you burn, yes will will end up fat. And if you are also muscular, then you will have more fat between your skin and your muscles. Women have a special layer of fat cells, called subcutaneous fat layer. This is because on women give birth. It is active during pregnancy. But your body will also store fat there, in anticipation of pregnancy and child birth, if your body thinks it is starving.
If you are very active, but continue to eat high fat foods, you may get to the point where you are not burning all the calories and you will gain fat. The key is calorie intake and calorie burn. You can exercise and tone muscles and that even helps to burn calories, And the more muscle mass you have the more calories you will burn too. But bottom line, to keep from gaining fat and storing it ontop of your muscles, is to be sure that you burn more calories than you eat.
It is just easier to avoid fat because fat is dense with calories. For example a gram of fat can contain 10 calories, while a gram of starch may contain 6, and a gram of say complex carb like vegetables may contain 3. YOu can eat more of the foods that contain less calories per gram.
Michele
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