And yet other guy 170 pounds has more of beer belly despite he use to be over 200 pounds!! He does not drink much beer now but as more of beer belly sorta like this http://www.infoniac.ru/upload/medialibrary/3b6/3b640b5047d4ba6ad7f88015e1878906.jpg
He is in his 60’s. Works part time and does not drink much now, yet has more of beer belly despite he has lost a lot of weight. How is this possible? Unless what he is saying is not true and still over 200 pounds. I don’t understand is weight is lower than those other guys I know.Well unless what he is saying is not true and still over 200 pounds.
It’s hard to say without knowing the exact cases. However, stomach fat is usually the last area of fat to disappear when losing weight. I think this is especially the case for men. He may also have some excess loose skin remaining on his stomach.
Weight isn’t body composition. Fat is less dense than muscle so it takes up more volume for the same mass. Fat gets stored in different locations on different people as well. The guy in his 60s is likely looking at having lost muscle versus when he was younger and heavier just from the effects of aging.
Yep, ‘weight’ is an unhelpful aggregation of various factors but the variabes worth noting are water, fat and muscle - muscle being around 7 times denser than fat.
Basically, as compared with someone of similar ‘weight’, the more muscle you carry the slighter you look .
This can be quite a good resource to see the variation in body types at the same weight. If you click into a cell, you’ll get all the photos of the people who are that same height and weight.
Yeah, it’s getting so rare to see people with lots of lean body mass that people forget you can get heavy with that just as you can get heavy with fat.
This guy is a professional wrestler who is supposedly 6’1" and around 250 lbs.
UFC Fighter Roy Nelson is about the same height and weight, but walks around with a massive gut.
Difference is simply what portion of their respective bodies is made up of lean mass versus fat. Being heavier doesn’t have to mean being fatter.
Weight is a metric, not a perfect one but a good high level indicator. It can be useful on many levels, as long as you understand what it means and get additional information to complement it. I wouldn’t call it “unhelpful”, it can be very helpful. Stepping on the scale in the morning gives you immediate and accurate feedback even though it is just a single factor in overall health.
But that doesn’t change the fact that your statement about muscle and fat was wrong.
