 Next question is from Mae punk. Why would my weight go up a couple of pounds after I started fitting into my clothes differently? I could clearly look like I'm losing weight, but the scale is not reflecting that I've been doing maps anywhere This is a beautiful place. Yeah, what a great problem. You're winning. This is exactly what you want Your weight remember your weight Represents just your whole body. What's on your body? How much it weighs? So to be more specific if I cut your leg off, right? You're gonna lose. I don't know 20 pounds Are you happy that you lost 20 pounds because you lost your leg? Of course not what you're experiencing is more muscle on Your body and some fat loss now Why does this look like you're losing weight because body fat is more voluminous in per pound? So to give you an extreme example right now imagine a pound of iron Imagine how what that would look like a pound of iron would look like a very dense small ball, right now? Think of a pound of cardboard. It's a lot bigger It takes up more space because the cardboard isn't as dense now fat and muscle aren't that extreme in terms of their difference but it's enough to make a big difference to where if you gained four pounds of muscle and lost, you know two pounds or three pounds of body fat the scale is gonna show that you're heavier But your body is gonna look leaner and you're gonna feel differently when you put your clothes here I'll give you exactly what we used to have in the gym. So you want a good visual if five pounds of Muscle looks like a softball and five pounds of fat looks like one of those fire logs I mean that's the difference. So if that's what the fight they they should so that's a massive difference So as you lose that body fat, you're gonna it's gonna come It's gonna condense the inches right so your waistline will go down But the scale may stay the same and honestly This is where I want to be with every client I act my goal whenever I no matter what their goal is body fat reduction muscle building just being healthy I am looking for them to start to see like their waistline tighten up They get stronger in the gym But our scale staying right about the same because I know that we're having a nice exchange We're losing about two or three pounds of body fat and we're gaining about two or three pounds of muscle Scale is saying the same, but they are seeing a difference in the mirror They're seeing a difference on inches on their waist That means you have a very nice balance of your training and nutrition regimen means your items right on pace in maps Anywhere even though it's a program where you're not using barbells dumbbells and machines because it was designed for at-home use or you know Which will work out anywhere is a still a very effective muscle builder if you follow maps anywhere You are going to build some muscle which then speeds up your metabolism So if you stay on this path if you have a lot of body fat to lose and this is blowing you away Why do I look leaner? I'm gaining weight on the scale. I still have 30 pounds of lose stay on track Stay on track. You're gonna start to lose body fat in a hurry Especially now that you've built some muscle and your metabolism faster, you know when I was a back in the day I used to this was it a way that I would sell resistance training to clients Especially early days of personal training because back in those days women in particular were very apprehensive to lift weights So I had this female trainer that worked for me. Her name was Homera and she was Built she was lean. She was very toned and sculpted You know nice legs glutes delts arms most women who came into the gym would point her out and say wow That's what I want to look like so what I would do when I would talk to women about lifting weights Is I would page this trainer to my desk then I'd have Homera walk up to the to the potential client and I'd say okay I want you to guess how much I used to do the same thing I say I'd say I want you to guess how much she weighs and I every single time they would say oh like 105 110 And I'd say okay Homera how much you weigh 140 pounds and they would be blown away to the point where we'd have to walk over scale and weigh them and then I'd say see she's Muscle and she's lean and that's how you want to look So let's not worry so much about the scale. Let's put some muscle on your body It'll let you eat more food so now you can stay lean or easier you're stronger and more mobile and oh by the way You'll look better anyway