In recent days, the photos of Kelsey Wells, a famous blogger, have made the rounds of newspapers, including Italians: Kelsey shows a before and after in which she was 65 kilos (and wanted to lose weight), 55 kilos and 63 kilos.
With what weight do you think she has achieved a splendid and fit body, as well as visibly thin?
Well, her current weight is her last: Kelsey now weighs 63 kilos, but she’d give her 50. Compared to the initial 65 kilos where she didn’t feel good about herself, she only lost 2 kilos. Apparently.
She actually gained lean mass and lost fat through the right physical activity, with the result that her body is now really lean but… heavier.

This is in fact true weight loss: getting rid of fat mass, and this can only be done in two ways;
1) Losing weight in general: certainly a percentage of the weight we lose with the diet is of fat mass; but with diet alone we also lose lean mass, and our metabolism is lowered.
2) Increasing lean mass and metabolism with the right diet and above all the right activity. Our body becomes toned, we lose fat mass and we shape ourselves… All nice, right? Apart from a small fact that no one ever thinks about: it weighs more.

Lean mass weighs more. It has a smaller volume than the fat mass, but has a greater weight for the same volume. Muscles are heavy, so if we really want to lose weight and be toned, the scales are likely to go up.
But does it always go up? So, how did those who lost weight on the scales in the gym do?
It depends on their initial overweight. The more a person is overweight, the more likely he or she will be weighing less by putting on the right lean mass, because the loss of fat mass will exceed the positive balance of the lean. But people who have a few pounds to lose can feel disappointed by going to the gym: the right workout and the right nutrition will shape their body, but at the same time they will lift the scales. Solution?
As good personal trainers say , if you really want to lose weight, you need to throw the scales.
A little too drastic? Okay, don’t throw the scales but don’t pay too much attention to your weight if you decide to really lose weight, because the increase in muscle mass will lead you to gain more weight or to finish your journey with the same starting weight, but with a size in less.
What do you prefer? A size smaller and a more beautiful body, with a better metabolism, or a size more with the scale that marks you five kilos less and the low metabolism, which forces you to eat less to maintain weight?
Think about it well!